Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tear-Gas Attack. On the far right, the four-year-old National Democratic Party suffered its first setback at the polls when rightist candidates collected only 5.2% of the vote in local elections in the big West German state of Lower Saxony, which borders on East Germany. Until now, the National Democrats have been winning a higher percentage of the vote in each succeeding election, gaining 9.8% in last April's state elections in Baden-Württemberg...
Going into the game, Detroit's Deny McLain fairly oozed confidence. "I want to humiliate the Cardinals," said Denny, whose regular-season record of 31-6 makes him the big leagues' biggest winner in 34 years. "If that's the way he feels, he'll get his chance," retorted the Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 32, whose 22 victories this season included 13 shutouts and whose earned-run average of 1.12 was the lowest ever in the National League...
...back tomorrow," promised Manager Smith. And back they were, pounding four Cardinal pitchers for 13 hits and three home runs, staking Lefthander Mickey Lolich to an 8-1 victory that evened up the Series at one game apiece. Two days later, in Detroit, the Cards unlimbered their own big bats, cracking 2 homers and winning...
Though the college football season is barely under way, the experts are already excited about the expected climax. The date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...
...majority of Justices have now become sensitive to widespread criticism, and during the coming year are likely to pay a little more attention to public opinion. Actually, the court has done a bit of retrenching in the past two years, and may well leave more and more of the big issues to Congress. Still, the libertarian doctrines developed by the Warren court during the past 15 years are firmly rooted. They are not likely to be abandoned by the men who now sit in the chamber...