Word: diego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Division race, the Dodgers dropped 31/2 games behind the Giants as Maury Wills made an error with the bases loaded and two outs in the tenth inning to give the Giants a 4-3 victory over Los Angeles, Atlanta crushed San Diego, 8-2, to remain half a game out of first...
...children completely paralyzed, deaf and blind by the time they are two, and is usually fatal by the age of four. Modern medicine knows no cure for Tay-Sachs (named for the physicians who first described the condition), but two scientists at the University of California's San Diego School of Medicine have now provided a means for detecting and avoiding...
...world's largest and most impressive collection of underwater coral formations. It has also destroyed nearly 22 miles of Guam's coral barrier. Marine biologists report similar starfish damage off Saipan, Fiji and the western Solomons. In only five years, says Oceanographer R. D. Gaul of San Diego's Westinghouse Ocean Research Laboratory, the starfish can destroy a coral atoll that may have taken thousands of years to form...
None of these tactics is guaranteed to curb the tough, durable crown-of-thorns. Australian researchers are pressing hard to find better answers. So, too, are 40 marine biologists and divers from San Diego's Westinghouse Lab who fanned out across the Pacific this summer in an expedition sponsored by the U.S. Government. Unless the crown-of-thorns is restrained, many more miles of coral in the Pacific and other seas will be ravaged by the spreading starfish...
Durocher may have to munch on those words. While the Mets were blasting the San Diego Padres last week, his Cubs were pulling out of the mire of a four-game losing streak. For a time, though, Durocher's dig seemed prophetic. Through late July and early August the Mets played down to their past reputation. In one horrendous doubleheader in Houston, the Astros pasted Met pitchers for a total of 27 runs. The Mets lost 3-2 to the last-place Expos when Rookie Gary Gentry yielded an embarrassing total of three home runs in one inning. As summer...