Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twilight Zone. Franco apparently intends to preside over the coronation and then retire to private life. At 78, he is in full possession of his faculties, but he insists privately that he does not want to go out as did his neighbor in Portugal, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who suffered a stroke and lived his last two years in a twilight zone of helpless incomprehension. More important, Franco, a lifelong monarchist, knows that in Spain there is no great affection for the crown. He also knows that many of his associates, including his probable choice for Prime Minister, Vice President...
Speedy southpaws, a notably skittish breed, are traditionally either late bloomers or early dropouts. Lefty Grove was 27 before he hit his stride, Rube Waddell 25 before he found the strike zone, and Warren Spahn 25 before he won his first major-league game...
...that it was a "Year of the Pitcher." There was nothing really wrong with baseball that a few booming home runs wouldn't cure. Bowie Kuhn, who was appointed commissioner of baseball after the 1968 season, conspired to "restore the balance between offense and defense." The strike zone was tightened and the mound lowered. In addition, both leagues added two teams and divided into two divisions, thus doubling the number of possible pennant contenders. The results were dramatic. From the 1968 to 1970 seasons, the total number of home runs hit in both leagues jumped from...
...would have needed a combination of Bunuel and Hitchcock to carry it off. Instead it has Daniel Mann (I'll Cry Tomorrow), who manages, despite a good performance by Bruce Davison, to make the movie look like something disinterred from the cellar of TV's Twilight Zone...
...Leathernecks who set up the McNamara line-the string of forward posts just below Viet Nam's Demilitarized Zone-used to describe their shell-pocked bases as "machines for killing Marines." The wry echo of Le Corbusier's famous line was morbidly appropriate. To counter enemy infiltration into South Viet Nam, the outposts had to be close to the DMZ-and therefore within easy range of Communist artillery in North Viet Nam and of mortars and rockets illegally positioned inside the six-mile-wide zone...