Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice to come home to for sluggers Kliszewski, Bob Cerv, Steve Bilko (a PCD legend after years with 37, 55, and 56 home runs), and Eddie Yost (a base-on-balls specialist who has hit 35 four-baggers in two seasons). But the Angels' pitching is just awful; their ace, Eli Grba, couldn't pitch batting practice...
...annual meeting of Chicago's Economic Club, Right-Thinker Eddie Rickenbacker, 70, the U.S.'s World War I ace of aces, now Eastern Air Lines board chairman, stood up and fired toward the left: "American liberalism is driving us into slavery and, with us, everyone else in the world-for the death of liberty here will be the death of liberty around the world and the beginning of complete Communist tyranny for centuries. But now, thank God, the wind has shifted. Conservatives are rising up across the land, finding new strength in their old convictions, making their voices...
...other two field records were set by Crimson ace Tom Biodgett in the pole vault and broad jump. Biodgett's pole vault of 13 ft. broke by six inches the meet record he set last year. The broad jump was a Crimson disappointment, aside from Blodgett's record leap of 22 ft., 11 in. "Zik" Asikiwe had a bad day, and Alan Albright, although he qualified for the finals, and although he was the most consistent Crimson jumper throughout the day, was unable to squeeze out the few extra inches necessary to place...
...Ace in the Hole...
...Great Falls, Mont., leafed through his diary to stir that 18-year-old memory. The leafing was prompted by the news of a strange sequel. From a West German soldier named Alfons Hafner came word of a promise that he had made to his brother Toni before the ace died during the war: Alfons would find the American pilot and give him some remembrance of that brief encounter in Tunisia. Ace Toni did not know the American's name but had passed along a photo to Alfons. Alfons, in turn, passed it along to West German military author ities...