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...nola, 64, a monocled, swashbuckling counterinsurgency hero turned reformer-has pledged to form a provisional government this week. As that deadline approached, no fewer than 54 different political parties, ranging from Maoist splinter groups on the left to monarchists favoring the restoration of the House of Bragança on the right, stepped up their jockeying for influence. All wanted to be part of the interim coalition that will govern Portugal until general elections are held next spring...
...playing with a black that at the beginning of the season they had jointly petitioned Rickey to trade them if he was going to play Robinson. However, by the end of the season, the attitude of these players towards Robinson had changed substantially. As one of them, Bobby Bragan, recalls: "Sure, there were five or six of us who resented Robinson's joining the team. But, by that fall, when the Series checks were being passed out, Dixie Walker and Ed Head and all of us who were there, we had our hands out just as big as the next...
...JAMES BRAGAN Peru...
...Cheese. National League officials naturally disdained the decision as a case of bruised rural pride. They said that they would appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, maybe even to the U.S. Supreme Court. President Warren Giles claimed that the league was "denied a fair trial," and Braves Manager Bobby Bragan growled: "I wouldn't go back to Milwaukee for all the cheese in Wisconsin." Wisconsin officials retaliated by threatening to seek reciprocal injunctions in other states that have National League teams, prohibiting those teams from playing the Braves and thereby hopelessly fouling up the Braves' 1966 schedule...
...Braves' forte is the outfield, with Hank Aaron, Rico Carty, Felipe Alou, and Mack Jones. Bragan spots Tony Cloniger, Denny Lemaster, Ken Johnson, and Hank Fischer as his starters and looks to an array of youngsters to supply the rest. The Braves must have good years from veterans Eddie Mathews and Frank Bolling, plus a return to form by Denis Menke...