Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine years from our established stars, but we've also seen injuries and slumps cripple a virtual All-Star team: Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Frank Lary, Al Kaline, Sandy Koufax, Gene Freese, Minnie Minoso, and Gill Hodges...
Over the off-season, partisans of other A.L. hopefuls like Al Lopez and Bob Scheffing pointed, to the loss of shortstop Tony Kubek and the impossibility of repeat performances by Roger Maris and Luis Arroyo ("Relievers Don't Repeatl" an article in Baseball Digest maintained) as reasons for a Yankee collapse...
...stars dominated the meet. Husky Harold Connolly whirled the hammer 231 ft. 10 in., breaking his own world record by 1 ft. 1½ in. Miler Jim Beatty ran away from his competition to win the 1,500 meters by 8 yds. in 3 min. 39.9 sec. Discus Star Al Oerter and Broad Jumper Ralph Boston expected tough competition, but had no trouble handling their Russian rivals...
Only a $15-a-week steno when she sailed from London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks...
...Al Oerter, 25, two-time Olympic gold medal winner: the discus throw in the U.S.-Poland track meet, with a heave of 204 ft. 10½ in., breaking Russian Vladimir Trusenev's world record by 2 ft. 8 in. The U.S. won the meet...