Word: 480th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swung at an inside pitch and, as he likes to put it, "Swoosh! Swoooosh! Suh-woooosh!" It was a home run into the leftfield bleachers. With that hit, Banks became the 17th player in baseball history to drive in 1,500 or more runs. Last week Ernie belted the 480th homer of his career (he is tenth on the list of alltime home-run hitters, just ahead of Stan Musial) and a double against the Los Angeles Dodgers to take over the league lead in RBIs...
...Ubon bases in Thailand, 56 Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs and F-4C Phan toms headed for a mid-air refueling rendezvous with their KC-135 tankers, then zeroed in on the giant steelworks. Despite "extremely heavy" flak and ground fire that brought down one F-105 (the 480th plane lost over North Viet Nam in the air war), the U.S. jets unloaded more than 80 tons of bombs, mostly 750-pounders, on the target. Smoke billowed 5,000 ft. into the air, preventing a damage assessment. Next day the planes went back to Thai Nguyen again, with a second...