Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom at the Americana Hotel, only floors away from strike negotiation headquarters, the mayor and his wife Mary acted as if they had not a care in the world, danced across the bandstand to the tune of Oh, Johnny as a crowd of 4,000 applauded...
...game-18,000 fewer than the N.F.L., but perfectly respectable, considering that the A.F.L. has no ballparks to compare with Cleveland's Municipal Stadium (77,096). Another 10 million fans watch American League football on television every weekend -precisely the same number who tune in to National League games. With each A.F.L. club receiving $900,000 a year in TV revenue (v. $1,000,000 for the N.F.L.), the young league is holding its own in the expensive battle for promising college stars. Last week the New York Jets signed up (for $200,000) Oklahoma's All-America...
...uniforms-let alone for buying players on the open market. Rickey's answer was to invent the farm system, gaining control of minor-league clubs, using them as training schools for future stars. At first rival big-league bosses hooted at the idea-but they changed their tune when the Cardinal organization produced Rickey's famed "Gashouse Gang" managed by Frankie Frisch and featuring Dizzy Dean, Ducky Medwick, Leo Durocher and Pepper Martin. With as many as 32 minor-league teams operating full blast, Rickey had a virtual monopoly on young talent. The Cardinals won the World Series...
...last week Subandrio abruptly changed his tune. To the amazement and shock of an audience of university stu dents in Djakarta, he declared that the Communists' involvement in the Sept...
...increase, from public and private sources, of $18 million for electronic instrumentation, including the purchase of new instrument and computer tune...