Word: yes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drysdale: Yes. My mother was a heck of a catcher. She helped me with my control, and she taught me to keep my fingers out of my mouth...
...Hofheinz has a new spectacular: Astroworld. It opened last week, a 57-acre amusement park near Houston's Astrodome and still another of Hofheinz' ventures, a convention center called Astrohall. Yes, it rained on opening day. Such attractions as a simulated sleigh ride down the 65-ft.-high Der Hofheinzberg and most of the boats to carry visitors through a Lost World Adventure were not functioning. The next night, the Astrowheel-the world's first futuristic Ferris wheel-groaned to a halt, marooning 40 riders high above the action...
Despite the Crimson's rapid elimination, and its powder-puff offense which could only produce one run in two games, the answer is yes. Harvard cannot hope in the near future to field a team as strong as the tournament's best, but in losing, 2-0, to St. John's and, 2-1, to Southern Illinois the Crimson made a respectable showing; according to one veteran sports-writer, the best by a New England team in years...
...Yes, we were all of these things and some of these things and none of these things at all. The press played us for what we were worth and then dropped us like the younger sister of a two-bit whore. But there were parts of us they never touched. We had our honour and our price. There were levels of profundity and nuance they could never fathom. So be clam because I'm not about to unveil out mystique here. Probably I had you scared, worried at least that I would attempt to expose our secret. Fear...
FATHER: "Yes, son, your mother and I have been thinking and we feel that after your $16,000 education it's time that you made something of yourself...