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...Broeg, a veteran sportswriter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, recalls an interview in 1964 that capsules White. St. Louis was ten games behind Philadelphia at midseason. Would he comment on the problems if Broeg pledged to exclude his name? "No," White said. "I won't comment unless you do use my name. I'm the problem. The RBI man hasn't been knocking in any runs." After that he started knocking them in by the bushel, and the Cards made up 6 1/2 games on the Phils in the final two weeks and went on to win the World...
...Turkish proposal to send helicopters and cranes. An American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Claude Frechette, who arrived shortly after the earthquake, says he was told by a Soviet doctor in Yerevan that his help was not needed. "The problem is there is no central organization at Yerevan to dispatch people and equipment," Frechette said. "No one knows what anyone else is doing. Information passes simply by word of mouth...
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the director of the Hillel Society at the University of California at Los Angeles, described the proposed law change as "contrary to the humanistic, open and tolerant Israel that we love." Natan Sharansky, famous Soviet ex-dissident, said, "Principles were being auctioned off with dizzying dispatch. It was not a pretty sight...
Since then the Armenian Republic has been paralyzed three times by widespread work stoppages protesting the Kremlin's refusal to countenance a border change despite the violence committed against Armenians next door. Twice the Soviet government has had to dispatch troops to Yerevan to quell disturbances. Last July a boy was killed by a plastic bullet and 36 people were wounded during a confrontation with soldiers at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport...
This summer I worked as a sports writer for the Richmond Times Dispatch. My assignments were varied: auto races, tennis matches, golf tournaments, minor league baseball games, even a bass fishing tournament (more than 15,000 people filled the Richmond Colisium to view the weigh...