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Peters is a 6'5" 225-pound right-handed pitcher who lost two games in three years of high school ball -- both one-hitters. During his senior year at Nicholas School in Buffalo, N.Y., he hurled two consecutive no-hit games...
Every year, a few high school stars in the Buffalo area accept major league offers. Too many of them, according to Peters, return home after two or three futile weeks in the minor leagues. After college, he believes that he can begin in a much higher minor league than he could...
...unified action. Putting that lesson to good use, Negroes in several cities across the nation last week made themselves felt by voting for their own causes and candidates. In Springfield, Ohio, a Negro got the biggest vote of the five candidates for city commissioner, thus qualifying for the mayoralty; Buffalo elected three Negroes to its 15-member city council. The most dramatic expression of the Negro's new force occurred in Cleveland's mayoralty race...
Upstate New York was, along with Maine and Vermont, once the most rock-ribbed Republican part of the nation. A map of even the 1936 Presidential election shows one big Republican swath from Buffalo to Bangor. But Upstate has changed since the '30's. Its proportion of Irish, Italian, and Polish Catholics has been rising, and these are just the ethnic groups that have been the backbone of Democratic surges since 1950 in states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Michigan--states that were predominantly Republican...
...come East to college. And any time the Tigers bog down within 40 yds. or so of pay dirt, they can always call on the services of Charlie Gogolak. Like his brother Pete, who boots field goals and extra points for the American Football League's champion Buffalo Bills, Charlie kicks the ball soccer-fashion, with his instep rather than his toe-and he already holds practically every college place-kicking record. So far this season, he has booted 25 straight points after touchdown, 15 field goals (longest: 54 yds.) in 19 tries, ranks No. 1 among college scorers...