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...after the sixth inning, and he wasn't the only one to leave early. Partisan fans started filing out after the third when the Yanks unloaded for seven runs on eight hits off Pete Richert, including a home run by right-fielder Bill Robinson. Elston Howard added the final insult with a homer in the seventh. In all the Yankees had 14 hits -- six for extra bases...

Author: By James K. Glassman, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Yanks Murder Senators; LBJ Shows Strong Arm | 4/11/1967 | See Source »

...tight lid on wages, the government announced a 100% hike in postal and telegraph rates, a 23% increase in water and gas rates and a stiff new tax reform that raises many taxes, adds some new ones and provides penalties of up to 500% for tardy payers. To add insult to injury, Onganía showed that he was not in the least fearful of the unions. As his government moved firmly against labor, he hopped into his light blue Avro jetprop early in the week and took off on a six-day visit to Argentina's remote, southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: End of a Truce | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

With the match already decided in the final round. Harvard coach' Edo Marion substituted team manager Jeff Friedman in foil to avenge a similar insult from Yale coach Al Grasson seven years...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencing Team Downs Yale, 19-8 | 3/7/1967 | See Source »

Referring to capital punishment as "an insult to civilized society," Bailey said that some one like Albert DeSalvo -- the 'Boston Strangler' -- should be studied, not killed. "DeSalvo," Bailey said, "gives psychiatrists a rare chance to study the mentality of an irrational killer, and the doctors should not let the chance slip away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bailey Hits Defects in Criminal Law | 3/2/1967 | See Source »

...last week. "We are only getting rid of those people who are here illegally." The same menacing tone was in the voice of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, who warned that "non-Kenyans, however rich, who ridicule the laws of the country, practice cat-and-mouse friendship and insult Africans will be ordered to pack up and go home." Who were these social undesirables about to be tossed out of paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Black Resentment For the Asians | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

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