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Marsh has been going to ball games since he was old enough to tell a ball from a bat. He considers his first allegiance to the Cardinals, since he was born in St. Louis, and his second to the Senators, since he grew up in Washington.* But he has a transferred loyalty to the Baltimore Orioles, because-as many fans may want to forget-the Orioles are in fact the old St. Louis Browns gone east and up. So, in a way, Marsh could hardly call last week work. It was off to Baltimore for a game with the Chicago...
...Cafeteria, 150 separate menus will provide 520,000 lunches, suppers and breakfasts of champions. Dominating the Olympic Tokyo is Architect Kenzo Tange's shell-shaped National Gymnasium complex, where swimmers and basketball players will vie, while the first judo competition in Olympic history will be conducted beneath the bat-winged roof of the Budokan Hall. Last week teams from 96 nations were forming for the Tokyo Games, and sports buffs the world over prepared to descend on the city by sea and air. At least 20,000 of them a day will make the scene during the Games...
...policeman fired two warning shots, the mob, which had begun to disperse, went wild. A crowd swarmed into Grand Street, surrounded a car driven by a 22-year-old white man, John Hudak. They smashed the car windows, dragged Hudak from the vehicle, and beat him with a baseball bat before police could rescue...
...Killebrew may settle it once and for all by knocking both records out of the park. At the end of last week he was 7 games ahead of Ruth's pace, and within striking distance of Maris. Killebrew this year is averaging one homer every 9.9 times at bat, compared with Ruth's lifetime average of 11.8. He is leading the slugging Minnesota Twins, who have lofted 177 homers in 111 games, on a pace that will almost surely make them the home-run-hittingest team in the history of baseball...
...exposure vaccination for people who run special risks-veterinarians, dog handlers and wildlife rangers. This protection program, Dr. Tierkel suggested, may be just the ticket for Peace Corps workers and other people going into areas where rabies is endemic, especially in Central and South America, home of the vampire bat...