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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackson's fielding is much slicker, and his strikeout rate is down by 25%. He has also switched from a 33-oz. to a 37-oz. bat, and the results have been awesome. One of his homers cleared the left centerfield fence in Kansas City, 480 ft. from home plate and nearly 80 ft. up. "They say it went 600 and change," says Jackson. He batted in ten runs in a game with Boston. During a recent game in Oakland, he belted three home runs against Seattle pitchers. After he cracked two home runs in a single game...
Nixon's home team also boasts a man whose performance has been worthy of the highest admiration-bespectacled Frank Howard. While Jackson is relatively unprepossessing in appearance, Howard at 33 is absolutely forbidding. One of his home runs once splintered a bleacher seat 530 ft. from the plate. A veteran of seven years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 6-ft. 7-in., 260-lb. first baseman was always a prodigious but sporadic long-ball hitter. Only after he was traded to the Senators in 1964 did he begin living up to his potential. In 1968 Howard led both...
Others are certainly trying. Boston's Carl Yastrzemski and Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew have slammed 28 home runs apiece. In the National League, San Francisco's Willie McCovey and Cincinnati's Lee May also have 28, while Atlanta's durable Hank Aaron has 24, to bring his career total to 534. With the season little more than half over, seven or eight hitters thus have a shot at hitting 50 or more home runs-a feat that has been accomplished by only nine players in major league history.* If 1968 was the year...
...puberty, of sexual interest." Forcing sex education on children in this period can cause them to "become overstimulated and obsessed" and can "produce perversion in adults." Still other critics of the courses argue that the schools are illicitly taking over an educative function that properly belongs in the home or with the churches...
...hour work day, Heikal heads home to a luxurious Cairo apartment to relax with his wife and three sons. His very presence makes the apartment building a coveted address because, says a Cairo diplomat, "everything works-or else." His comfortable existence is marred only by a thin shadow of danger. His outspokenness (some call it arrogance) has earned him enemies, and his survival-like his power-rests with a single man. "If Nasser ever goes," says one well-placed Egyptian, "Heikal had better be on the next plane out of the country...