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There are all sorts of hot teams in the American League this year. The Detroit Tigers (5-1) wangled Pitcher Bill Monbouquette away from Boston in a trade. The Chicago White Sox (6-1) have a new manager, Leo Durocher's protege Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, and a new centerfielder-Bonus Baby ($65,000) Tommy Agee, who is hitting .366 this spring-but they also have a line-up that averaged 80 strikeouts per man last year. The newly named California (formerly Los Angeles) Angels have a new $24 million stadium in Anaheim and new ambitions...
...giant slalom in the international High Sierra ski cup races; at Heavenly Valley, Calif. Beaten by his French teammate, Georges Maudit, in another giant slalom race the day before, Killy zipped through the 57 gates in 1 min. 32 sec. to beat Maudit by 1 sec. Another French skier, Leo LaCroix, finished third, and the top American, California's Jimmy Heuga, wound up fourth...
Today former State Department official Owen Lattimore and John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Leo Higginson Professor of History, will discuss highlights of recent Chinese history. Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, will speak this afternoon on Chinese foreign policy, and be followed by a four-man panel discussion of Chinese policy toward specific nations...
...referred to Walter O'Malley, owner of the Los Angeles as "the assistant commissioner"; to Willy Mays. San Francisco's star outfielder, as "loving the game so much, he would play for nothing"; and to Leo Durocher, the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, as the man who may fire Cubs owner Phil Wrigley before his contract runs out. "When asked about the interleague competition, now vetoed by the national league, Veeck replied that it was so logical that it couldn't happen...
Naked Wade-In. The free-sex movement has been growing slowly in various parts of the country since March 1964, when Dr. Leo Koch, a biology teacher who in 1960 was fired by the University of Illinois for advocating premarital sex, and Jefferson Poland, a restless student who says he is studying to be "either a lawyer or an agitator," founded the New York City League for Sexual Freedom. Poland, who now attends Merritt Junior College in Oakland, took the offensive for nudism by wading naked into the ocean at San Francisco's Aquatic Park last August with...