Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...50th reunion class -- 300 alumni, wives, and widows -- then went on to talk about their banks in St. Joseph, Mo., their grandchildren at school in Concord, their own longevity, and how they took up tennis at age 52 to stay...
...General Motors, grows 6 per cent to reach a value of $1,013,000,000. The Administrative Board agrees to consider whether students accused of disciplinary infractions should be allowed to testify in their own behalf. P. L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, arrives at Radcliffe and promises to stay "until the wind changes." Three Harvard students are knifed on Weeks Bridge. The CRIMSON makes its Fall announcement that the Graduate School of Education will build a new library...
...losses when he was spiked in the leg trying to cover first base. In 1962 it was a twisted ankle that disabled him for 30 days-though he still posted an 18-11 record and picked up a victory in the All-Star game. Somehow, Marichal managed to stay healthy in 1963. On June 15, at Candlestick Park, he pitched a no-hitter, permitting only two Houston Astros to reach first base, and winning 1-0. Two weeks later he toiled 16 innings to win another 1-0 decision, over the old master, Warren Spahn. At season...
Good fortune obviously could not stay at that astronomical peak-and it didn't. Marichal won 22 games in 1964; he also spent weeks in traction with a pinched nerve in his back. Even that was a minor crisis compared with The Incident of 1965, when for the first time anyone can remember Juan Marichal lost his cool completely-thereby endangering another man's life and his own career...
...That's quite a load," he sighed, "when a car weighing 1,450 Ibs. is sitting on your head. But it didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...