Word: dismalness
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Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...
...against class horses, knowing that it had been overmatched. Never better than fifth the entire race, the horse finished sixth, thirteen lengths in arrears. The loss was not the jockey's fault as the comment was--"well placed, tired." Last week the horse won by twelve lengths against a dismal Rockingham Park field. This Saturday Coup Landing faces another lackluster array of local talent with the exception of the Eddie Anspach trained Red's Copy who would show a touch of class in beating his horse--and Coup Landing will be favored to win again, if by a smaller margin...
...elephant trapped in quicksand" is the way Indira Gandhi sometimes describes her ruling Congress Party. During the past few years, the party's dismal performance makes that description seem particularly apt. Indian voters have turned against the once all-powerful Congress Party. In the 1967 state elections, for example, the party lost control of four key states-Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and the Punjab. In last February's midterm elections in those states, Congress failed to regain its old supremacy. Last week the party developed new troubles: an open power struggle in the leadership...
...McNally's invincibility, the Orioles are hardly a one-bird flock. Pitchers Tom Phoebus and Jim Palmer have 16 wins against four losses between them. Slugger Frank Robinson has snapped back after a dismal season last year, and is currently the league's second best hitter with 17 home runs and an average hovering around...
...exhibition of hand-to-hand combat. There was an upset in the women's division: Mrs. Anita Thornton, whose dinner call can be heard by her husband three miles away, lost to Mrs. Jeanne Marie Brown of New Orleans, who charmed the judges with her "Dismal Swamp Call." Dewey Jackson won the big gold trophy, as expected, then triumphed in the duet competition with his brother O. B. But Henry Parsons, 73, became everybody's sentimental favorite with the holler that he used as a boy when he drove the wagon in for the evening. Splitting...