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...TRAFFIC. To speed subway travel, he proposed construction of several new lines, triple-tracking, and staggered working hours for New Yorkers. As for auto traffic, he suggested expansion of cross-town express routes, priority lanes for busses and trucks, more municipal parking facilities, and relocation of the city's cargo docks so that freight-laden trucks would no longer burden Manhattan streets...
...looked as though nothing short of a complete transfusion could help the slumping Yankees. Last week they dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Baltimore, and proved that it was no fluke by losing 2-1 in an exhibition next day against their cross-town baby cousins, the New York Mets. (The Mets had prepped for the game by losing six straight in the National League.) Then the Yanks shuffled off to Cleveland to swap condolences with an old friend, Pitcher Ralph Terry, who won 76 games for the Yanks before he was traded to the Indians last October...
...Even if it were the Committee's responsibility, any cure would be worse than the disease. In other words, only cross-town busing and an extreme gerrymandering of school zones could change the racial composition of the city's schools...
Twelve times this season, U.C.L.A. has walked out on the court outgrown by a couple of inches per man. And twelve straight times, Wooden's team has run away with the game. Last week U.C.L.A. took on its cross-town rival, Southern Cal, dawdled long enough to let the Trojans build up an early lead, then turned on the pressure and romped to a casual 79-59 victory. At the season's midpoint, the Bruins were the nation's No. 1 team and the year's biggest surprise...
Coach Norm Shepard will go with his best against the cross-town foes. Al Yarbro, right-handed ace of the Crimson mound staff, will be the starting pitcher. Yarbro has an effective fast ball, and a fine collection of curves and change-ups to go with it. He is 1-0 for the season and owns a perfect 0.00 earned run average...