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...lofty position atop the National League. The adjective was too mild. In seven games, the Cards had bettered opposing pitchers for 85 hits and 52 runs; the whole team was batting a fantastic .322. Most sensational of the St. Louis sluggers was Outfielder Lou Brock, who switched to a heavier bat this spring to cut down on his tendency to overswing, last week ranked No. 2 in the National League in hitting (at .417), No. 1 in home runs (with six) and No. 1 in RBIs (with 13). "I can bunt too," said Brock, "but nobody knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Cardinals in Spring Plumage | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...pointed out wryly last week, such criticism can only lead to great jubilation in the halls of Moscow's KGB, Department D-for Disinformation-the arm of Soviet counterespionage whose main function is to discredit CIA. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, when asked about increasing demands for heavier congressional surveillance over CIA, replied: "I don't believe in exploding our intelligence agency. The British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Silent Service | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

They argue that Harvard's four-course load is ideal, and that it would be a mistake to give students more incentive to carry a heavier program. Students who want to experiment outside the four-course load, they say, can and do audit fifth courses...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: HPC Considers Fourth Course 'Pass-Fail' Plan | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

...fuel, feed and arm the Allied fighting machine, some 6,000 tons of war materiel must be funneled daily through the port of Saigon. The labor is usually done by Vietnamese stevedores; the men of the U.S. Army's 4th Transportation Command seldom lift anything heavier than a clipboard as they direct the flow of goods. But last week the Saigon Dock Workers Union went out on strike. To keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Waterfront | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Rick Sterne, Jose Gonzales, and Matt Hall cut down their opposition at second through fourth matches, 3-0. Harvard's Sterne met Peter Martin's older and heavier brother Kerry at number two. The Crimson's lefty used the corners and out-ran the overweight Canadian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racketmen Beat McGill As Nayar Edges Martin | 12/19/1966 | See Source »

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