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...there the Coliseum outfield seems to stretch away forever like a vast green cow pasture. In his frustration, Duke undertook to prove to Infielder Don Zimmer that at least he could heave a ball out of the park. In a pregame contest, he threw a ball up to the 76th row of the 79-row stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind of medicine. Every game Duke missed because of his horseplay, said Alston, would cost him a day's pay ($275). Next night...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...Billings, Mont., Maurice McCarty, 46, pleaded guilty for the 76th time to a charge of drunkenness, complained to the court that police are giving him "life imprisonment on the installment plan...
...19th century devotion to the 19th century-brand empire. With a sentimental tremor in his voice, he closed: "This may be my last appearance on television, unless I am asked again when I am 80. Now I must go. My friends would celebrate because I am in my 76th year. A strange reason. I will celebrate, too. I won't be late. I am never late." -In a television interview with Columnist Drew Pearson, Adlai Stevenson confessed that G.O.P. foreign policy is a perplexing thing to him, often leaves him mulling over who's really running the State...
Crusty old Tom Connally, Texas' retired Democratic Senator, celebrated his 76th birthday by shaking his finger at the young scamps in the party: "The Democrats can overdo this business of bragging about their support of President Eisenhower. That sort of thing may be no help in the years to come...