Word: killers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeing things I didn't see before," he says, and his record this season shows visible improvement: a league-leading 14-2. The unreliability of Detroit's other front-line pitchers is offset by the strength of its bullpen: among them, Relievers Pat Dobson, Jon Warden, John Killer and Fred Lasher boast a record of 15 victories and nine saves against only five defeats...
...Creighton W. Abrams Jr., 53, a hard-cussing, cigar-chomping specialist in tank warfare, takes over the superb American military machine Westmoreland did so much to fashion in Viet Nam and is bringing in new generals to give it new directions. "Abe is by nature a slugger and a killer," judges one of his military peers. "Westy tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry. Westmoreland, meanwhile...
There were some reappraisals abroad when the news came that Kennedy's suspected killer was less a product of U.S. society than of the festering hatred of the Middle East. "After we had all written about violence and cankers in American society," wrote London Daily Mirror Columnist George Gale somewhat soberly, "it came in a way as a sort of relief and undoubted surprise that Robert Kennedy was allegedly killed by an Arab for perfectly understandable political reasons." However, that fact, he predicted, will "become generally obscured," and indeed it was obscure enough in the continuing world comment...
...first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...
...Goforth, a decaying harridan who has made herself one of the richest women in the world by marrying six husbands-"a pyramid of tycoons." She is spending the summer on her private Mediterranean is land, in a flashy white villa guarded by a sinister dwarf (Michael Dunn) and his killer dogs. When she is not screaming at her servants or bullying her pretty secretary (Joanna Shimkus), Flora is rasping out her gamy memoirs into a complex of microphones and tape recorders scattered throughout the house...