Word: squad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season gloom was, however, suddenly dispelled by a highly successful trip South, during the spring recess. The varsity won three of four games played on this tour, and several new men performed with a competence not before suspected of them. When the squad returned to Cambridge, hopes for it had risen so high that even an Eastern League pennant seemed within the bounds of possibility...
...brief comparison of this team with last years' E.I.B.L. championship squad may prove instructive. Both possessed a trio of .300-hitters (though the averages of this year's Big Three were somewhat higher); and both had dependable pitching staffs...
...force of 50 jets, and a navy of 19 frigate-destroyer escort-type vessels, all highly efficient. The troops looked neat and tough. Drive west from the center of Ciudad Trujillo, and you come on huge fields with possibly 2,000 to 3,000 men drilling in squad-sized groups. These are the draftees, and their D.I.s strut and chant like U.S. marines, all very sharp. On the air route from the east, there is a brand-new jet base at San Isidro, about 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo, with what looked like 8,000-9,000-ft. run, ways...
...Cuba now enters the creative stage," announced Castro. "We must begin leaving behind the bitter stage of executions and punishments." Last week was the first since Jan. i in which not a single Cuban died in front of a firing squad. Castro also seemed more willing to quarrel with the Reds around him. His mouthpiece, Revolution, denounced the Communists for trying "to climb on the bandwagon of the revolution and detour it from the path." Undeterred, a top Chilean Red, Luis Cor-valan, declared: "We must march with the bourgeoisie, and Cuba is the example." While Communists praised the revolution...
Captain-elect Tim Gallwey, Bowditch, Vinton and Jorge Lemann--two to five this year--form an impressive nucleus for the 1960 squad. Although Gallwey was playing ahead of him at the end of the year, Bowditch's victory in the New England's may well have established him as next year's number one. As for the two gaps in the top six, the most likely candidates to fill them are freshmen Joram Piatigorsky and Mark Woodbury and sophomores Bob Schwartzman and Pete Smith...