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...first thing people notice about Atanasio Rigal Perez is his distinctive build. The second is the way he hits a baseball. His teammates insist there is a connection between the two. "See that rear end on him," says Johnny Bench. "That's what generates his power." Not long ago the callipygous Cuban was leading both major leagues in home runs, runs batted in and batting average. Now it looks as if he might not lead his own team in anything. Not that Tony Perez is slumping-he hammered out four homers and drove in 14 runs in his last...
...becoming baseball's most accomplished base thief. He has stolen 43 so far this season. Tony Perez bats No. 3. He still leads the Reds in batting average with .334, but in the power categories he has fallen behind Cincy's Catcher and Cleanup Man Johnny Bench, who leads the majors in home runs (40) and RBIs (115), and sets new criteria for excellence at his position No. 5, Rookie Outfielder Bernie Carbo, has the face of a matinee idol, and 19 home runs in only 263 at bats. They are all backed...
...rivals could hardly wait for the opening of Cincinnati's $44 million Riverfront Stadium-not only because of the 50,000 seats. The new park's wide open spaces were expected to cut into the Reds' homer parade. Nothing doing. Since Riverfront opened on June 30, Bench and Perez have reached the distant bleachers on 17 occasions...
...brave young prosecutor, whose real-life name is Christos Sartzetakis, had been elevated to a judgeship because of his work in the case. In 1968, the colonels dismissed him from the bench, along with 29 other judges, for "political bias and failure to uphold the prestige of the judiciary." When Lambrakis was killed in Salonica, another deputy, George Tsarouhas, was brutally beaten. In 1968, Tsarouhas was arrested by the junta for subversive activities. On the way to police headquarters in Salonica, he died. According to the official police report, he had suffered a "heart attack...
...Hiroshimas-its explosive equivalent-does. We multiply mentally: the dead, the maimed, the burned, the merely (and mercifully) vaporized. The ever-growing sophistication of weapons appalls: a Bomb with the explosive force of Little Boy can now be conveniently carried in a bowling bag and left on a park bench. It is now a fortunate commonplace that nuclear war simply cannot be a rational instrument of international policy...