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AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE REPORT (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Curt Gowdy hosts a new series of filmed digests of this season's A.F.L. games and plays...
...ever called themselves a ball club. First Baseman Boog Powell is (at 6 ft. 4½ in. and 246 lbs.) one of the biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder and hamburger...
...there are signs that he may be mellowing. Nobody on the squad has been fined all year. Curfews are lenient, and bed checks are rare. The Orioles obviously are enjoying their new freedom. Outfielder Powell, who batted only .248 last year, was up to .299 last week. Curt Blefary has twelve homers, and Centerfielder Russ Snyder is batting .337. Rightfielder Robinson ranks No. 1 in the American League in homers (22) and runs scored (68), fourth in batting (.312). Third Baseman Brooks Robinson, no relation, is the league leader in RBIs with...
...their late-Czarist pavilion, bearing a hammer and sickle, the Russians displayed their usual Soviet pop, in which Lenin portraits are repeated with the regularity and exactitude of Campbell's Soup cans. The Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming Widow your own Gilt Skeleton...
Since the Redmonds were definitely not repeaters, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall asked the Supreme Court to reverse their convictions "in the interests of justice." Last week the court assented in a brief, unsigned order. In a curt note, Justices Potter Stewart, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas added that they "would reverse this conviction, not because it violates the policy of the Justice Department, but because it violates the Constitution...