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Most days, main street in the tiny farm community of Yuma, Colo., is slow, save for a few folks meandering from Hardware Hank's to the coffee shop and maybe some pickup trucks poking along, the better to avoid a stray dog or loose child...
...available to us. But I was pleased to have the chance to talk to him and, of course, I have over the years worked with different Administrations in America - with Robert Rubin and Larry Summers as Treasury Secretaries, with Paul O'Neill and John Snow and now Hank Paulson - and I think with both parties in America relationships are strong...
...tone-deaf suit or a chivalrous protector of the integrity of America's favorite pastime? Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, tangled aggressively with high-profile players like Hank Aaron and Jim Bouton and owners like George Steinbrenner, and chafed in 1969 when Curt Flood unsuccessfully sued the league to become a free agent. (In 1977 arbitrators ruled in favor of free agency.) But Kuhn launched the playoffs, ruled that female reporters should have equal access to the locker room, inked a deal with NBC to air night games of the World Series...
...Tiny Selma, a sleepy town of less than 20,000, was a hubbub of politicians and media. Alabama Senator Hank Sanders, who invited Obama, contributed the national attention to the importance of Selma in the voting rights movement. "Selma is a symbol for the whole world," Sanders said...
...DIED. Hank Bauer, 84, gruff former U.S. Marine and linchpin for the New York Yankees during the team's run of nine pennants and seven World Series from 1949 to 1959; in Shawnee Mission, Kans. The hard-nosed slugger won two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for heroism during World War II. As a player, he set a Series record by hitting safely in 17 consecutive games. He later managed the Baltimore Orioles to their first Series title, in a memorable upset over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966. The two-time American League manager of the year said...