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...Stadium in Southern California, which I had the misfortune of visiting last summer. The game was a beauty; Frank Tanana of the Angels and Catfish Hunter of the Yankees locked in an extra-inning duel. But as is the fashion in the new parks, our seats in the upper deck were a good five or six miles from the action. The field's dimensions are completely symmetrical--the distance down the right-field line matches the distance down the left-field line, right-center matches left-center, and a plain green 6-ft. high fence borders the outfield...
...Deck Grouse...
...observation deck, about 200 Spanish Communists, most of them young, strained to catch a glimpse of their legendary leader. Some waved red flags with the party initials and the hammer and sickle emblazoned in gold. If they had hoped for a chance to greet her, they were disappointed. La Pasionaria was quickly whisked away in a private car to the home of a friend in Madrid. By the time the crowd had run to the baggage claim area, she was gone, leaving the party militants with nothing to do but chant "Si, si, si, Dolores a Madrid...
...Harvard J.V., losers to Yale a week ago at the Sprints, rebounded by snatching a solid six-second victory from them yesterday. "We had a good start, and then settled about a deck length down. We started to walk on up on 'em before the half mile mark, slowly but steadily. And there we went by, taking three seats," coxswain Chris Boit said last night...
...United States Boxing Championships, a tournament designed to establish an American champion in every weight division, was launched with much hoopla last January from a ring set up on the flight deck of the Navy carrier Lexington (TIME, Jan. 31). Behind the extravaganza were Superpromoter Don King, the orchestrator of Muhammad Ali's bouts in Zaïre and Manila; Roone Arledge and ABC Sports, the tourney's bankrollers and broadcasters; Ring magazine, the "Bible of Boxing," which rated the worthiness of the tournament boxers; and New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr., who lent the championships...