Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What effect has South Viet Nam's sputtering political crisis had on the war itself? Surprisingly little on the activities of the Vietnamese armed forces, and as far as the Americans are concerned, virtually no effect at all. Last week U.S. ground action reached an alltime high...
...Russian caviar in avocado pears for $5. Any jewelry store on Oriental Avenue has star rubies for the asking-plus $3,250. And instant antique Buddha heads are everywhere available to the unwary tourist, the corrosion of centuries being achieved by burying the newly minted statue in urine-soaked ground for three months. Equally abundant are instantly available women...
...picked Boston as a testing and proving ground for Negro interest, and as a training ground for white liberals? "That's the beautiful thing," says Miller beginning to get excited. Boston is a pivotal city. It has a greater possibility to solve the problem of its Negro population than any other city." In 1940, there were 20,000 Negroes in greater Boston; by 1970, there will be at least 100,000, but even so, the problem is not unsolvable as it is in Harlem...
...Crusaders came back in the bottom of the ninth as Paul Stagliano hit a ground-rule double, moved to third on a single, and scored on Jack Sheehan's fly. John Dockery's throw from left field almost caught Stagliano at the plate, but the Holy Cross runner dove into O'Donnell hard enough to shake the ball loose--and knocked himself cold in the process...
...twice sent liners whistling high over Atlanta Stadium's 400-ft.-deep leftfield wall. In Washington, awed witnesses reported that a drive hit by Senators Outfielder Frank Howard was still climbing when it caromed off the centerfield seats 480 ft. from home plate and 75 ft. above the ground. In Baltimore, the Orioles' Frank Robinson topped even that by becoming the first player ever to hit a fair ball clear out of Memorial Stadium. The baseball was finally located lying in a parking lot 540 ft. away...