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...Public School 161 in Manhattan, three-fourths of the students are Hispanic. So the community school board decided to rechristen the school, which bore the name of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. As a three-term mayor, the "Little Flower" championed city dwellers of every race and creed. But no matter; he was Italian, not Hispanic. The board thereupon chose the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, who before his death in 1965 proved his "unselfish devotion," in the board's words, "to the cause of liberation of Puerto Rico from the yoke of American colonialism...
After relinquishing singles to the first two men up in the inning, Linehan bore down and induced two ground balls. The first one became a fielder's choice and the first out, but the second one, the potential inning-ending double-play ball, was thrown into centerfield...
Enter Ron Luongo, who immediately walked Barry Cronin to make it 4-3, but then bore down to strike out pinch hitter Tommy Joyce, and induce Dave Singleton...
...like Pollyanna and The Parent Trap. Then in 1965, at the age of 19, Hayley Mills shed her moppet image by moving in with British Producer Roy Boulting, a thrice-married father of seven who was 33 years her senior. Five years later, the couple were married, and Mills bore a son. Now a ripe old 30, Hayley has come a long way indeed from her Disney days. Her latest credit: she has been named the "other woman" in a divorce suit filed by the wife of British Actor Leigh Lawson, 32, whom she met last May while the pair...
...influence of the space race on astronomy. "The Apollo program, plus bad publicity, killed off public interest; it was extremely ill-advised to sell such things on TV, which, after all, goes for the lowest common denominator of mentality, because as a result, space programs became a bore; they were not astronomically illuminating to the few, and the many were never really excited." He straddles the chair and adjusts his tie--red, with green football players...