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Overstroked all the way by an amasingly durable Penn eight, the varsity heavyweight crew went down to defeat by a deck length at the hands of the Quakers Saturday in the Adams Cup at Annapolis...
...tops on the team; he had hit five homers (including his first grand slam), driven in twelve runs. Manager Ralph Houk moved him up six notches in the line-up (to second), and even Yogi Berra was impressed. "When you see anybody hit two homers into the upper deck in Washington," said Yogi, "he ain't what you would call an ordinary hitter...
From the tenth-deck bridge of the world's largest ship, he looked on as depth charges were exploded just 700 ft. away, shaking the great ship as if it were a dog just out of a bath. Afterward. Kennedy accepted a windbreaker and moved with McNamara to the gusty starboard side of the ship to watch an aerial display. Two Terrier missiles homed in on a drone plane, but missed-although naval officers explained that they would have been close enough to the target if they had been armed with real warheads...
...concrete rollercoaster. Home of the American League's last-place Senators and the National Football League's lowly (one win, twelve losses, one tie) Redskins, D.C. Stadium seats 50,000 for football, 43,500 for baseball. It is as comfortable as it is big. A cantilevered upper deck eliminates the need for view-obstructing posts, and a roof shields 60% of the seats from sun and rain. Each seat is a minimum of 20 in. wide (v. the standard 17 in.), and many are thoughtfully equipped with outlets for electric blankets. Scattered strategically about the stadium...
...West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this much Japanese merchandise, Seibu's buyers had to organize a Japanese children's clothing industry almost from scratch (Japanese children wear...