Word: roster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
...lesson easily, Rose took a dive after a hard-hit ball in the July 5 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The National League's No. 1 vote getter in All-Star balloting, Rose sat out the classic with a broken thumb, spent 23 days on the inactive roster. Now that he has recovered, the Cincinnati management can only pray and do what it can to keep its zealous star whole-such as emphatically denying him permission to play in an amateur football league this fall...
...nearly untenable military situation. Its small army of 25,000 is outmanned four to one by the federals. It has no heavy weapons and suffers from chronic ammunition shortages. One of its best brigades has arms for only 3,000 of the 6,000 men on its roster...
...addition, Leo, who is 5'10", 180 pounds, is small for a halfback. Like another little man who has made it big in the AFL, Mike Garret, Leo is counting on his speed, especially to the outside, to win him a place on the roster...
...patients treated in his dialysis department at the Prospect Heights Division of Long Island College Hospital. This is hardly more than home treatment would cost, and since most of Dr. Avram's patients are poor, home treatment would not be practical. No less remarkable, the Prospect Heights roster lists 33 patients, more than are treated at most dialysis centers with more equipment and heavy federal financing. The unit has enjoyed no federal or state handouts...