Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicate that the doctor series are sickening unto death. Even ABC's Peyton Place may be past its prime - bunched in the top ten through much of the summer, Peyton Place I could now do no better than a tie for 35th, Peyton Place II was in 21st, and Peyton Place III had slumped all the way to 65th...
...Tougher Troops. There had been earlier in the week: on the 19th, 20th and 21st of September, Chinese patrols moved across the border against Indian positions, firing white parachute flares from their mortars and covering their approach with bursts of small-arms fire. Before dawn on the 21st, a brief fire fight took place, and about 1,000 rounds were exchanged. The Indians suffered no casualties, but the Chinese were seen dragging at least two of their men from the foggy no-man's-land below the ridge. The results reflected the change that has come over Indian morale...
...Last week Sandy became the first pitcher in either league this season to win 20 games-and he has only four losses. He beat the New York Mets again, striking out 14 men in nine innings. That plus another 12 strikeouts in shutting out Pittsburgh 1-0 for his 21st victory at week's end brought his total K's this year to 279. With about twelve pitching turns to go, he seems a cinch to smash Bob Feller's alltime ma jor league record of 348 strikeouts...
CORE'S James Farmer is just as explicit. Delivering the opening address at his organization's 21st national convention in Durham, N.C., recently, Farmer said: "It is impossible for the Government to maintain a decisive war against poverty and bigotry in the U.S. while it is pouring billions down the drain in war against people in Viet Nam. The billion dollars available to fight poverty is puny compared with the need and insignificant compared with the resources expended in wars...
Walt Hewlett, a mercurial distance runner who has lost only one dual-meet race in his life but who sometimes collapses in big meets, will run in the sixmile. Hewlett was fifth in last fall's NCAA cross-country championship and 21st is the Boston Marathon...