Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was last year. "I've grown up a lot this season," says Denny. For one thing, he has learned to put a muzzle on his mouth or at least to temper his cracks. He still insists that "Tiger Stadium is the worst in the league," but now, instead of simply railing that "Detroit fans are the worst I've ever seen," he is careful to limit his complaint to "some" Detroit fans. Even so, he has been belligerent enough to inspire one of those fans to wire a smoke bomb to the engine of Sharyn's car. The bomb...
...eight-week nightclub tour in the offing. There are personal promotions for Hammond's new $6,000 X-77 organ, which Denny says "is a helluva lot better than the old B-3." He ought to know; he owns one of each. "Music has always been the No. 1 thing in my life," he typically exaggerates. "Baseball is a means to an end. I want to ultimately be a professional musician...
...Barish had accumulated a small fortune with various enterprises, including a housing project in Mexico; he had also founded Manufacturer's National Bank of Hialeah (assets: $10 million) and become a director of Hamilton Life Insurance Co. Though his first love was politics ("I thought the greatest thing in the world would be to be a U.S. Congressman"), Barish decided to concentrate first on making money. He took aim at a hitherto overlooked market: foreign investors eager to put funds into the U.S. but imbued with a traditional preference for real estate rather than stocks and bonds...
...grew "weak in the knees." Later, the chief's son, speaking with a crisp upper-school British accent, explained to Holden that he had attended the ceremony as a gesture to please his dad, though the young man himself did not go in for that sort of thing. That is part of Kenya's ecology...
...movie, Charles Whitman is Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly), a clean-cut gun-toting Boy Next Door who mutters his frustrations in asides such as, "You think I can't do any thing, don't you?"Bobby sets out to prove what he can do. He begins by methodically killing his wife and mother. Then, from an oil-storage tank and later at a drive-in theater, he coolly fires away at helpless motorists trapped in their cars. The slaughter does not end until Boris Karloff, stoically suffering through a prolonged cameo appearance as a fading horror...