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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...