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Yesterday the Sox lost 4-3 in 12 innings to the Minnesota Twins, dropping their spring record to 6-11 for ninth place in the American half of the Grapefruit League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratic Pitching Hampers Bosox In Shaky Spring | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

...Grapefruit League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

...Mount Zion Hospital, he is still a human disaster, his knee the size of a grapefruit in his frail, pipestem leg. He weighs only 48 Ibs., but has gained 10% more body weight in eight weeks at Mount Zion. His malnutrition is halted, the infection in his burns gone. Carefully engineered blood transfusions preceded a new round of skin grafts, this time successful. The virus-plagued knee cartilage is destroyed, but the joint will be fused; some day, Tran Huu Nhon will walk again in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casualties: C.O.R's Score | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Cuba's Economy--1967 | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

...time, his work was agricultural and manual. Moving to Ayeleth with his family in 1952, he spent several years in its fish-ponds, sloshing waist-deep in water, hefting loads of squirming carp. Then he transferred to supervising the citrus orchards. He spent long days pruning dead limbs off grapefruit trees, or pacing the orchards' endless rows with a sprayer...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Israel: The View From a Kibbutz | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

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