Word: roster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington's prestigious Metropolitan Club-whose roster includes luminaries from Congress, the Cabinet, Embassy Row and the Pentagon, but nary a Negro-last week lost Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. "It is inconceivable to me, in this day and age," read Bobby's resignation letter, "that the privileges of this club, which holds such a unique and peculiar post in the nation's capital, would be denied to anyone merely because of his race...
...American girls played better than anyone expected. Missing from the U.S. roster was No.1-ranked Darlene Hard, who was recovering from hepatitis. Pressed into service was veteran Margaret Osborne du Pont. 43. who had not played a Wightman Cup match in three years. The other U.S. girls-none over 18-looked raw and unpromising alongside such seasoned British stars as Wimbledon Champion Angela Mortimer, Runner-up Christine Truman, and French Champion Ann Haydon. What made the upset all the more upsetting was the 18-year-old who engineered it: a rangy (5 ft. 6 ½in., 125 Ibs.) brunette from...
...staging well-designed new productions, building an impressive roster of singers, and boldly doubling ticket prices for choice locations, Bing has boosted Met income higher than it has been since the days of Italian-born Impresario Gatti-Casazza's reign in the 1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman...
Aside from a one-year graduate course given by New York University, Radcliffe's is the only comprehensive introduction to publishing, and in addition to groundwork in proofreading, copy editing, and layout, the course enjoys an outstanding roster of lecturers: editors (Edward Weeks of The Atlantic Monthly), writers (John Updike), Presidents of films (Barney Ross of the recently notorious Grove Press), and Art Directors (Cipe Pinellas of Mademoiselle who enlarged upon the details of the Lampoon's recent forays there...
...sheer unadorned, twisted, dirty reporting, this article deserves a high place in the roster of dishonorable journalism. You have corrupted every statistic you use, finding evil in the titanic effort made by the people of New York to create a better city...