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Cornell threatened for the first time in the eighth when lead-off batter Pilky walked and stole second. But Kelly bore down and got the next two batters on infield outs that did not advance the runner. Wlikeski ended the threat with a line shot right at short stop Art Serrano...
Discrepancies. It may be that Swan acted to save a weak case. His lead-off witness, former Radioman Charles Sledge, was the most damaging to Mitchell. Only Sledge, 23, black and a luggage-factory worker from Sardis, Miss., would say that he "positively" saw Mitchell shoot a group of Vietnamese women, children and old men cowering in a ditch. Sledge said that he recalled seeing Mitchell confer with Lieut. William Calley Jr. at the edge of the ditch before the two opened fire on the villagers from about five or six feet away. "They were falling and screaming," he testified...
Coach Park has put DeMichele at the lead-off position in the batting order to take advantage of both his batting consistency and quick reflexes. DeMichele frequently got the jump on pitchers last season, hitting the first pitch and then stealing, second base. "There are a lot of mistakes in collegiate baseball," he said. "Once you're to second, you've got a good chance of scoring...
Nelson chose as his lead-off witness Dr. Hugh J. Davis, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1962 Davis has specialized in intrauterine devices (lUDs) and he is one of the inventors of a ring device not yet on the market. Davis argued that "breast cancers have been induced in at least five different species of animals by treatment with the same synthetic hormones being marketed in the oral contraceptives. Every important agent which has a carcinogenic [cancer-causing] effect in humans has been shown to cause cancer in animals. There is no reason...
Sophomore Bob Flanders came in to check the Harvard rally for the last three inning, and Nickens's mastery of the Bruins ended in the ninth. After a lead-off single, southpaw Nickens retired the next two batters safely, although the Brown runner managed to advance to third. One out away fro extra innings, Brown got the run-scoring single it needed. The game and the league race were over or the disappointed Crimson...