Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLORIDA ORANGES, which have a lighter, less attractive color than their California competitors, will be dyed a deeper shade, thanks to Food and Drug Administration. It has approved a new additive to make Florida oranges look more appetizing...
FIELDING. Both teams have good infields, although Pittsburgh's is a shade better because of the fine double-play combination of Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski and Shortstop Dick Groat, who claims that his broken left wrist has mended. In the outfield, the Yankees' weak link is Leftfielder Hector Lopez, who not only has a poor arm but stirs prayer in the breast of Manager Casey Stengel every time he wanders after a fly ball. Behind the plate, both the Yankees' Yogi Berra and Elston Howard have arms strong enough to discourage any base-stealing ambitions...
Fund raisers soon learn that not all men respond to all appeals: dollars come only for what is dear to the donor. Harvard fund raisers have not yet learned the obvious lesson, and do not appeal to every taste and every shade of opinion...
...along the siding while Kennedy trotted out the old nostalgia ("I follow here in 1960 the same trail Harry Truman took in 1948 when he came down this valley and carried California in the 1948 election"). At Sacramento, 5,000 massed in the station to hear Kennedy invoke the shade of a famous Republican: "Abraham Lincoln said, T know there is a God and he hates injustice. I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it. If he has a place and part for me, I am ready.' And I say in this campaign...
Sick in bed last week with pneumonia, Fidel Castro was made just a shade more miserable by outcries of opposition in the streets. After a special Mass at Havana cathedral for "those persecuted under Communist regimes." members of the congregation surged into the street shouting, "Cuba, yes! Russia, no!", a variation on the Castro cry of "Cuba, yes! Yanqui, no!'' For 30 minutes the churchgoers battled pro-Castro hecklers. Next day another street fight erupted after a Mass in suburban Miramar to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Castro wearily hauled himself...