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...York Yankees, paced by Bill Skowron's three-run homer, forced the series to go the seven-game limit by downing the Brooklyn Dodgers 5 to 1 in yesterday's tilt before a capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium...
Ever since Homer called it "the navel of the sea," Malta has been an island in search of an umbilical cord. 'Alone and vulnerable in the Mediterranean, 150 miles south of Italy, the rock (9 by 17 miles) has no economic value. But a fine deep harbor on its northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown...
Always a Surprise. Running the Yanks this hectic season, Casey was caught in a pennant race as wild and uncertain as his 1923 inside-the-park homer. He got started slowly; not until May 21 did the Yanks pick up the lead. July 1 saw them 6½ games in front. Then they stumbled. By the end of August, Cleveland and Chicago were fighting for first. But in September the Yanks made Casey look like a prophet. He said that the team that won eight straight in the stretch would wind up in the World Series against the Dodgers...
World Series homer. He waved his audience back, circled the bases by rounding the pillars in the Schroeder Hotel lobby, and then slid home beautifully on his stomach, skidding to a stop under...
...launch not one but six to ten satellite "vehicles" in 1957-58. Dr Homer E. Newell of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory told a Brussels geographical conference last week. The satelites will probably weigh less than 100 lbs., but even if they weigh only 10 Ibs they will be trackable from the earth Any interested party can track them or pick up their radio signals. "The satellites will appear in their orbits," said Dr. Newell "as a gift package from the U.S. Department of Defense...