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...most amazing part of the tour for me came five minutes later as we looked out on Soldiers' Field to our right and Phil described the Bubble (The Farrell Track Facility). "See that structure shaped sort of like a balloon? We call that a seven-year building because it comes down after seven years. It was originally built three or four years ago to hold commencement activities, and then they tried baseball and ind?? ????k in there. But they've stopped using it for baseball. It's made out of canvas and rubber compounds...
...third inning, the Bosox retaliated on Senators' starter Casey Cox, a former relief pitcher. Carl Yazstremski, former kingpin of the Bog Yaz Bread Company, nailed one of Cox's infamous balloon balls into the bleachers in right center field for a two-run homer. The Nats lead was neatly sliced...
Died. Ejnar Mikkelsen, 90, Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner...
...went back home, back to the country for that one." For what had to be the first time in his career, the Louisville Lip was not available for the postfight rehash. He was hustled to the hospital for X rays of his cheek, which was puffed out like a balloon. His jaw, it turned out, was not broken -nor was his spirit. "You lose, you lose," he said. "More important things to worry about in life. I'm probably a better man for it. Now all I want to do is to go home to my wife and children...
...Queens political dinner, Aurelio said: "Those of us who believe deeply in John Lindsay have adopted the slogan: 'We'd rather switch than fight.' " A day later Tom Morgan, the mayor's press man, dutifully shot down Aurelio's trial balloon by repeating Lindsay's own reiterated line that he means to stay a Republican and plans only to finish out his term as mayor. The New York Daily News, no Lindsay admirer, jumped aboard with a "Lindsay Switch or Fight" mail ballot, asking readers whether Lindsay should become a Democrat and whether...