Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba's most popular singers, now declared "decadent." Said Contreras: "They wouldn't let me sing what I wanted to, and they wouldn't let me make a tour inside the country, and finally they put a 70% tax on my wages to make me stop asking." So he and the others set sail to join their countrymen in Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and pray for a return to a free Cuba...
...spit and polish, precision, pomp and pageantry that only the British can bring off-an act that will still be burnished bright when the Beatles are balding, a martial display that could convert a Quaker. The near capacity opener in New York last week marked the sixth stop on a tour that would take in 33 more U.S. cities in the next nine weeks...
...Britko wakes up, the camera moves slowly along the ceiling and wall and finally up his legs, coming into focus with exquisite timing. Soon the audience becomes vicarious inhabitants of Britko's village. We walk down the main street behind Briko as he tips his hat to friends; we stop to hear an old fiddler play a bitter-sweet tune; we cringe when a Nazi dragoon marches...
...question is, can Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Claude Osteen stifle the Twins' hitting? Sure, Osteen beat them five times in a row when he was (gasp!) a Washington Senator, but can he and the others stop the "new," scrambling, Dodger-style Twins attack...
...boils down to a simple question: can the Twins' pitchers stop this puny attack more firmly than the Dodgers' can shut down the Twins' sluggers? I surely thought so. The Dodgers' offense, they say, boils down to a couple of .270 hitters plus Maury Wills. I didn't believe the stuff they said about Wills. He may have stolen 94 bases, but the averages say he makes an out 7 times out of 10. Could he be that terrifying? But I've changed my mind now. Any guy who can knock Camilo Pascual out of a World Series without even...