Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatic elevator stops with a jolt. The doors slide open, but instead of the accustomed exit, the passenger faces only a blank wall. His fingers stab at buttons: nothing happens. Finally, he presses the alarm signal, and a starter's gruff voice inquires from below: "What's the matter?" The passenger explains that he wants to get off on the 25th floor. "There is no 25th floor in this building," comes the voice over the loudspeaker. The passenger explains that, nonsense, he has worked here for years. He gives his name. "Never heard of you," says the loudspeaker. "Easy...
Besides lefthander Boone, a football halfback, the pitching staff lists right-hander Al Yarbro, a starter last season, Dave Larkin, Andrew Kamalien, and Dick Garibaldi. The top catcher is senior Dave Borkhagen...
...Starter. Emphasizing that distribution of the money would depend on "the readiness of each government to make the institutional improvements-which promise lasting social progress," Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate the $500 million it authorized at President Eisenhower's request last year, when the hemisphere foreign ministers met at Bogota to discuss social progress. The Inter-American Development Bank, in which the U.S. has 40% of the voting power, would get $394 million for soft loans, said Kennedy; $100 million would go to the U.S.'s International Cooperation Administration; the final $6,000,000 would be turned over...
...Davis are not the only freshmen who could help the varsity next season. Mike Crichton, 6 ft., 8 in., and Frank Martin, 6 ft., 5 in., both ve potential as good pivot men. Crichton started at center this year and Martin s sixth man on the squad. The fifth starter, 6 ft., 1 in. Barry Dym, trailed off in scoring after a good start, but remained a good ball-handler and rebounder. They're always saying, "Walt till next year," but this time it could be true...
...greeted as the most exciting new conductor to come along in years, and at least one critic found him, at 30, "the equal of the greatest." The Vandernoot repertory runs to "Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bartok and the Sacre du Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered...