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Last week 30 homers were hit around the majors in a single day. The New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle collected the 500th of his career, thereby becoming the sixth player in history to achieve the mark.* And Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated the approach of summer by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Aches & Pains | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Both Welz and Peters consider the end of sophomore year a perfect time to sign, and it is hard to gainsay their decisions. With most pro prospects starting their apprenticeship in the minors around age 18, the Harvard hopefuls would be way behind the game if they waited until their...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 5/9/1967 | See Source »

Another of the committee's proposals is aimed at lessening the gap between students who major in Classics and those who major in either Latin or Greek. At present Classics majors have to take general examinations in both Latin and Greek while the single-language majors lave to take generals...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: HPC Decides Classics Is Not Difficult En ough | 5/8/1967 | See Source »

Concert band has never been anyone's favorite musical medium. Composers shun it, music majors sneer at it, and conductors aspire to higher things. Plagued by a limited repertoire and a not-too-sophisticated audience, bands are usually reduced to playing Sousa marches and arrangements of the prelude to the...

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Harvard University Band | 4/17/1967 | See Source »

Another equally unhelpful theory is that pitching wins pennants. Baltimore's, at best, is unpredictable. The Detroit pitchers conned most predicters last year, but Hank Aguirre slumped to 3-9, Joe Sparma to 2-7, Mickey Lolich and Bill Monbouquette to ERA's over 4.70. The White Sox starters had...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 4/12/1967 | See Source »

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