Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White & Blue. Gary's Democratic party boss, John Krupa, bases his opposition on a wild claim that Hatcher, a lawyer and the great-grandson of a Georgia slave, is linked to Communists and advocates of Black Power. "I'm not against Dick Hatcher because of his color, unless it's because he's Red," Krupa says. "I'd like to see a Democratic mayor, but he has to be a red, white and blue one." Krupa's real motives-aside from Hatcher's color-seem more basic. Not only has Hatcher pledged...
What makes them run? "Something inside that was always denied," sigh the Beatles in She's Leaving Home, one of the most popular cuts from their latest Sgt. Pepper album. "They're running away from a system and not just maladjusted homes," insists Dick Chandler, 37, whose first play, The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake, is about a teen-age runaway, and is scheduled to open on Broadway next month starring Jean Arthur as a sympathetic aunt. "Some of them come from very good homes and are given everything," says Chandler, "but it's what the parents...
...capable of launching a winning streak that would allow it to pull away in the final three weeks. The Chicago White Sox have solid pitching, but they also have a team batting average of .229. The Boston Red Sox can hit, but their pitching is so shaky that Manager Dick Williams is talking about using his lone ace, Righthander Jim Lonborg (record: 19-7), every two days. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers need heavy slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last week, Minnesota's Killebrew had clouted only three home runs...
...engineer-minded youngsters who talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "foot-pounds of torque" and bristle at any mention of the sport's indecorous beginnings. "Why don't people just forget about all that?" complains Petty, who answers to no nicknames ("If my mother wanted me called Dick, she would have named me Dick"), neither smokes nor drinks, shuns sportswriters, photographers and auto graph seekers, and insists: "If there is any glamour in this sport, I haven't found...
ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host the pilot of a comedy-variety series...