Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sole responsibility for the present situation," charged Radio Peking, "rests with the U.S. and the Sananikone government." Peking accused the U.S. of trying to turn Laos into a U.S. military base. "This naturally poses a threat to China and [North] Viet Nam. To eliminate the tension in Laos, all American military personnel and arms and ammunition must be withdrawn, all U.S. military bases must be abolished...
...California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Air Force launched Discoverer V, putting a ton of hardware into orbit, including the 1,700-lb. second-stage rocket and a 300-lb. instrument package-a new record for U.S. satellite payloads (but still far behind Russia's 2,134-lb. Sputnik III). After 17 trips through its polar orbit, retrorockets were to plunge Discoverer V back into the atmosphere, and C-119 transport planes-trailing trapezelike devices to snare the descending parachute-were waiting 700 miles southwest of Hawaii. But Discoverer V was never heard from again...
...Luis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox has become the finest shortstop in the majors, an agile acrobat with a rifle arm, who can make gaudy plays on balls hit from within 20 ft. of third base clear over to second. The son of a Venezuelan shortstop, Aparicio made the White Sox in 1956, and with tobacco-chawing little Second Baseman Nellie Fox now forms the nucleus of the White Sox defense. At bat, Aparicio is hitting only .260, but his speed makes him the most dangerous man in the league, once he gets on base. He leads the majors...
...going to be one of the great ballplayers." Close friends lay Maris' poker-faced concentration to a desire to make good for his brother Rudy, whose career as a player back home in Fargo, N. Dak. was stopped by polio in 1951. With speed on the base paths and wall-climbing tenacity in the outfield to back up his hitting, Maris is the main reason the Athletics soared as high as third place last month...
...first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place. To get Willie's smooth, uncoiling swing into the lineup. Manager Bill Rigney willingly put him on first base in place of another 21-year-old slugger: Orlando Cepeda, the Giants' leading hitter (.315), the National League's first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans. Puerto Rican-born Cepeda is roaming the daisies in leftfield, where...