Word: roster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young girls' faces were pert, their clothes chic, their hair saucily teased. The boys were two-buttoned, stripe-tied, and fit. Their names on the Pan Am flight list could be taken from any U.S. school or college roster-Paine, Prentice, Chrysler,Cushing, Welch. Their fathers were businessmen, and about half could be found in the Social Register. Where were they going? To a coming out party at Britain's ancient Blenheim Palace for an American friend, Serena Russell, who also happens to be the granddaughter of the tenth Duke of Marlborough...
...Angels are the second worst fielding team in the league. No Angel batter is hitting .300. The team roster reads like a page from Who's That? Centerfielder Albie Pearson is a 5-ft. 5-in. shortie who hits a golf ball better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General...
Ambassadorial Mission. The two major omissions from his impressive roster (see box) are Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, neither of whom likes to be shown with other artists. Otherwise, the collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views...
...Philadelphia Phillies-the club that had set a modern National League record for frustration last year by losing 23 straight games. For Stengel, it was the last straw. "Somethin' hasta be solved around here real quick," said Casey, and he put every man on the Mets roster on the trading block-even slugging Outfielder Frank Thomas, who was enjoying the best season of his big-league careeer (.307 batting average, 13 homers). Yet by week's end, even though the Mets cut short their losing streak by edging out 4-to-3 their cellarmate Chicago Cubs, Stengel...
...qualifies as the orneriest critter in captivity. Starting his 13th year on the rodeo circuit, he has been saddled with 482 riders-only six have managed to stay on his back for the required eight seconds. "Those six times, he must've been colicky." says one cowboy. The roster of Aught's conquests is the Who's Who of rodeo: Harry Tompkins (five-time world champion bull rider), Billy Hand, Gid Garstead, Pete Crump, Tex Martin, Larry Condon. Recalls Tompkins : "He was really spinning, and all of a sudden, after seven seconds, he sort of stopped...