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...Francisco's two newspapers felt differently, putting up a strenuous defense of Alioto. The Chronicle rejected "this unfortunate piece of journalism as an imputation of guilt by association." The Examiner reprinted almost all of the mayor's lengthy denial and bannered an eight-column headline about an event of more than 50 years ago: ALIOTO'S UNCLE DEFIED MAFIA WAS SLAIN...
...year the Orioles won the pennant and took the World Series in four straight. In 1967, he tore a tendon and developed something of a paunch, finished the year with a disappointing 7-7 record. Before the start of the 1968 season, however, he underwent some strenuous arm therapy to stretch the tendon, lost 15 Ibs. and showed up for spring training in mint condition for the first time in years. His slider, an essential pitch for a lefthander throwing to a right-handed batter, returned better than ever. McNally...
Carl B. Stokes, D.C.L., Mayor of Cleveland. You exemplify the strenuous role that must be played by qualified citizens of all races if the large public problems are to be solved...
Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym. Bent on prolonging their useful lives, they pedal, bounce, pull and jog, sweating and puffing off excess fat. More and more companies encourage their employees to lose weight, but none have been quite so imaginative as Lowe's Inc. of Cassopolis, Mich. Lowe's is best known as the manufacturer of Kitty Litter, a granulated clay that is used to line cat boxes. The firm, which had sales...
...sharecropper, a child of the Depression who was twice a high school dropout. He eventually went to Georgia's Fort Valley State College, worked as a probation officer in. Savannah, and then moved to Chapel Hill in 1964 as a graduate student in social work. Lee's strenuous campaign centered on the contention that Chapel Hill, whose voting population is less than 10% Negro, was failing to meet the needs of its people in public transportation, recreation, city planning and housing...