Word: selected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming 27 years after Branch Rickey put a Dodger uniform on another Robinson and summarily broke the color line on the playing field, the appointment ends what had become a national disgrace. Team owners had simply lacked the guts to select any of the blacks who have enriched the game in recent years. Today, 150 of the sport's 600 major leaguers are black. Earlier this season, even Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn felt constrained to issue a public call for the selection of a black...
...bring films rarely shown in commercial theaters to the university community for the benefit of students of the cinema and anyone interested in the medium and (2) to provide a forum for the primarily aesthetic questions about films and film-making raised by the pictures shown. Film societies select movies for their artistic merit and/or their importance in the history of the craft...
Last year, this page was plagued by a particularly bad football picker. The poor fellow struggled around .500 all year. This year, an attempt will be made to select winners. This week's picks, including one game to be played tonight...
...probability, public passions would have cooled in that long period before Nixon came to trial, rather than have been heightened by the suspense. The Watergate specifics readily become garbled as time passes, and an open-minded jury could probably have been selected by then. No trial has ever been precluded in the U.S. because of prejudicial publicity and the consequent inability to select a jury. Nixon would surely have receded somewhat in public consciousness. The trial of a former President, while sensational for a time, would be far less traumatic than the impeachment of a sitting President...
...Teamsters suit charged that Sullivan violated a state housing authority law that requires "a representative of organized labor" to be among the five CHA commissioners. The law also requires Sullivan to select nominees submitted by the AFL-CIO Labor Council, the suit said...