Word: homers
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Died. Nathan Homer Knorr, 72, third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...Atlantic Champions had won a 3-2 thriller over Baylor in the opening round on a dramatic two-run inside-the-park homer by speedster Chuck McLean in the bottom of the tenth, giving Randy Martz, the nation's premier hurler, his thirteenth win without a defeat...
Hobson added another RBI single in the eight to drive in "Boomer" Scott with Boston's third run. Captain Carl Yastrzemski secured the win in the ninth by blasting a two-run homer, his eighth of the year...
...Rangers took a 1-0 lead early when Toby Harrah tapped starter and loser Ferguson Jenkins for a four-bagger in the second. Texas stayed on top until the seventh, when Bernie Carbo cranked his second homer of the season to tie the game...
Myth is not dead. It has just taken a job in the movies. Hitchcock is our Homer, Gone With the Wind is our Iliad, and, taken together, a hundred cowboy movies make up the Odyssey of the Late Show. Hollywood's images have become the myths of the 20th century, and somewhere in the depths of our unconscious are mingled words and pictures from the real and the reel: Abraham Lincoln and Raymond Massey, George Patton and George C. Scott, Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand...