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...reported Tuesday for a light two-hour drill, and yesterday participated in his first all-out professional practice session. The 5 ft. 11 in. 180-pounder is trying to make the Pats as a flankerback, and he started right at the top--with Babe Parilli throwing to him and the Pats first-string cornerbacks covering him downfield...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Leo Shifts to Flankerback As He Tries for Patriots | 11/2/1967 | See Source »

Brock has run at will on the Red Sox pitchers and catchers. He steals bases, provokes throwing errors and rattles teams. He led away and Santiago gave up a single to Curt Flood. Then the Rajah stepped to the plate. Roger Maris--the guy who broke the Babe's record...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cards, Gibson, Crush Sox, 6-0 | 10/9/1967 | See Source »

...beat Babe Ruth's home run record hit a sharp shot to the left of second baseman Jerry Adair. Adair dived, webbed the ball, but had no play on Brock streaking in from third...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Gibson Carries Cardinals To 2-1 Victory Over Sox | 10/5/1967 | See Source »

...rookie, Scott hit a lot of home runs in the spring. Did this make him just a promising rookie? No. It made him God. Day after day, a George Scott story was as regular a feature in the paper as the television listing. WILL GEORGE SCOTT BREAK BABE'S RECORD? INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE'S FIRST GRADE TEACHER. GEORGE'S MOTHER SAYS GEORGE IS A GOOD BOY. So when Scott flopped from July to September, it was not merely a case of a hot rookie turning cold. It was those cruel workings of fate again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: However Did the Red Sox Do It? | 10/5/1967 | See Source »

...stylized symbol atop each ticket was the first and last eye-stop for many voters. In the hamlet of Dieu Ga, ten miles outside Saigon, a mother with babe on hip voted for the rice-stalk symbol of Ha Thuc Ky because, she said, she "liked rice very much." An old woman chose Dzu's white-dove ticket thinking it was a chicken. Dzu used the dove symbol to dramatize his peace platform, but in fact only highly educated Vietnamese were likely to have made the connection: the dove as an emblem of peace is a notion largely unfamiliar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Vote for the Future | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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