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...says Outfielder Reichardt, a 23-year-old Wisconsin lad who signed a $200,000 contract with the Los Angeles Angels in 1964-thereby making him the most beautiful bonus baby of all time. Rick's first act as a pro was to step into the batting cage at Chavez Ravine and belt a ball straight over the 410-ft. sign in dead centerfield...
...fighting broke out after a delegation of 15 law students went to call on the university rector, Dr. Ignacio Chavez, who supported the dean's disciplinary measures. Instead, the delegation was arrested. Within hours, many of the university's 70,000 students picked up clubs and bicycle chains to battle the hard-pressed campus police. City cops stood by off campus, barred by federal law from entering school grounds. Some students took over the university's radio station, while others seized major buildings on the architecturally famed campus. When night fell, a group of students broke into...
...flick called Flesh and Fury. Anybody could see that it was not over yet: Tony's curls were still neatly combed. Bravely, he rose from the floor to smite his opponent a mighty clout on the mandible - and cheers rang through the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse at Chavez Ravine...
...there's no doubt that the Dodgers hitting is about as terrible as you could possibly imagine. Playing in gigantic Chavez Ravine, where singles ought to drop in all over the place, the Dodgers hit .245 as a team only because their three starting pitchers are all above-average hitters...
...Chavez, a captain more likely to buckle than swash, Quinn provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...