Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign correspondents based in Peking, probably none have been writing about the "new" China with more skepticism than the Toronto Globe and Mail's Ross H. (for Howard) Munro. Since his arrival 2½ years ago in the Chinese capital, where he is the only resident North American journalist, Munro, 36, has reported on a Potemkin village in Inner Mongolia that he suspected was set up to mislead visiting foreigners, pieced together detailed accounts of Peking's struggle with trade deficits, and chronicled the attempts of Mao's successors to revise the Chairman's teachings. For his enterprise, Munro was pointedly...
...hottest new product in home recreation," says Division Director Harold Roberts of Brunswick Corp., which makes Super Star and Skate King. "This is the Age of the Pinball!" exults Ross Scheer, an executive of Bally Manufacturing Corp., which makes Evel Knievel, one of the hottest games on the street. Worldwide sales of pins over the past five years have grown by up to 30% annually. Also booming are pinball rentals (at up to $135 a day) to party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch...
...give an autographed picture of Minnie Minoso to every person who remembers when Jim "Catfish" Hunter was a good pitcher. And I'll give Minnie Minoso to the first person who tells me that Hunter, even in the midst of his five consecutive 20-win seasons, had a Ross Grimsley penchant for giving up the gopher ball. Well, kids, he did it again last night as the Dodgers tied up the World Series at one game apiece...
...Ross said yesterday his election was part of "an effort to provide continuity" for Hillel. Hillel's operations were disorganized last year because of the prior decentralized system of committees and rotating chairmen...
Harvard Hillel aims during the next three years to extend its activities through the use of its new headquarters at 78 Mt. Auburn St., Ross said...