Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asians know you cannot play cricket, but Ping Pong is not your game either. Stick to baseball, Uncle Sam...
...Bureaucratic Mercy. Editors are concerned at this possibility and so is the U.S. Senate's leading libertarian, Sam Ervin Jr. of North Carolina (TIME, March 8). A Southern conservative politically, Ervin has made a personal crusade of defending individual freedoms from Government encroachment. Last week, in the first of a series of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings, Chairman Ervin and his colleagues heard the testimony of a parade of communications executives and experts...
...jilted lover, swiftly belts Sonny with a beer bottle, impairing his sight but, oddly, not their friendship. The night of Duane's departure for Army service in Korea, the youths attend the town's last picture show. Anarene's only theater is shutting down; Sam, its owner, has died-almost because there is nothing else to do. On the final bill is Red River, the definitive John Wayne Texas epic. Outside, the real Texas waits in the dark, choked with weeds and dust, cramped in spirit and dimension, the butt end of the Old West...
...Harvard, enrollment in History 182c, "Modern Vietnam," has plummeted from 195 last Spring to half that number this Fall. A dozen people showed up at the first meeting of Sam Popkin's graduate seminar on "Revolution and Politics in Vietnam." Four people are enrolled in "Elementary Vietnamese." China courses are packed. Nixon's ploy appears to be working...
...Short pronounced himself in "a more favorable position than any major league operator that I know of." The position of baseball itself, however, was less than favorable. Democratic Congressman B.F. Sisk of California called it "an illustration of just what money grabbers these people can be." North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, who happens to be chairing a Senate hearing on the possible merger of the two professional basketball leagues, called for antitrust legislation that would prevent franchise owners from shifting their teams like "private playthings" from city to city with a "public-be-damned attitude...