Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Athletic director Vincent G. Dougherty contacted the Crusader's eight remaining opponents- including B.B., Syracuse, Massachusetts, and UConn- to inform them that Holy Cross cannot fulfill its commitments to them. The cancellations could put the Holy Cross athletic program in serious financial problems, since the school will be losing about $200,000 in gafe receipts alone...
...managed to umpire one game at the sub-minors National Baseball Congress in Wichita, Kan. Since then, however, she has been given nothing but the runaround. New York-Penn's President Vincent McNamara rejected her first application because of the lack of adequate facilities for women and the language used by players. When she threatened to take her case to the Human Rights Division, McNamara relented-only to be overruled by Piton...
...State Department and NASA's Washington headquarters, but who rarely plays a direct role during a mission. Near by is a Department of Defense representative, whose console has direct lines to all military forces supporting the mission, including recovery teams; for Apollo 11, Air Force Major General Vincent Huston was the Pentagon's man. During most missions, George M. Low, Apollo program manager, Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, and other top officials also sit at the rear of the control room...
...businesses. Chicago's Tony La Pelusa, for example, started a tiny contracting firm at the age of 19. He picked a specialty-installation of aluminum siding, windows and eaves-and advertised heavily. Today, at 26, he owns three trucks, employs eight workers and farms out work to subcontractors. Vincent Bardis, 40, a former salesman, has built a bigger Chicago business by coordinating the work of 36 subcontractors. His firm has booked $750,000 worth of business so far this year. For some other contractors, repair and remodeling work have served as the launching pad into house-construction. William Adkison...
...such evidence. But because it is presented more as a loosely buttressed personal obsession, it is not obliged either to stand or fall. Instead, the book's thesis simply sways provocatively to the ritual accompaniment of Harrington's prose-a flexible alloy of Mao-revolutionary and Norman Vincent Peale-inspirational...