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...appointment smacked of "cronyism at its worst," said Michigan's Robert Griffin, "and everybody knows it." The charge of cronyism was reinforced by the fact that, to fill the vacancy left by Earl Warren's retirement and Fortas' move up, Lyndon Johnson appointed his old friend and fellow Texan, Homer Thornberry (see box, page...
...Homer Vergil...
...next day, Connecticut knocked off the Terriers to keep alive and win the right to meet Harvard in the showdown. The Crimson scored two runs early, but Connecticut tied the game with a two-run homer. Then, in the seventh, Jeff Grate, Dick Manchester, and Jeff Turco all singled. Grate scored, and Harvard was on its way to Omaha...
...first five innings and leading 8-4, after five. Starting J.V. hurler Dave Fierke let four runs score in the first inning and another in the second before being relieved by Dave Aschaffenburg in the third. The freshmen runs in the the first two innings came on a homer by Bard Fenton and triples by Pete Varney and Bill Kelly...
...night at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle, 36, leaned into a high fastball and belted it into the rightfield stands. The Yankees went on to lose the game to the Cleveland Indians, 3-2, but The Mick's blast was a victory of its own. It was his 522nd homer in 17 years as a Yankee, and it moved him past Ted Williams into fourth place on the alltime list, behind Babe Ruth (714), Willie Mays (569) and Jimmy Foxx...