Word: mid-august
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Philadelphia and Baltimore are only 100 miles apart along the Pennsylvania Railroad, but they were connected by a far stronger bond last week-one loud, anguished wail. As any student of ancient history will recall, both cities had pennants all locked up by mid-August: the Phils led the National League by four games, and the Orioles led the American by three. But last week the staggering Phils, who had since built up their lead to 62, were fighting for their lives, and the Birds had tumbled right out of the nest...
Finally in mid-August the first groups of people began to take the five-minute walk down to the court house to get on the registration roles. A Harvard senior, Marshall Ganz '65, helped organize the registration. (Ganz will return to McComb this week and will stay there for a' year...
There are times when a man can hardly count on the sun coming up. Like this year in baseball. Everybody knows that by mid-August the National League is ablaze with a furious pennant fight while the American League placidly watches the New York Yankees march out of sight. Trouble is, this year someone got the names mixed...
...Easy. The gravy was getting thinner. Last year's attendance (1,308,920) was the lowest since World War II, may be heading lower this year. So is the team, which at sale time was bumping along 31 games behind and in third place, their worst position in mid-August since 1960. Moreover, the Yanks have always been crowd pleasers because of their legendary heroes. But Mickey Mantle is now 32; he aches in every muscle, and after him, who? Finally, there are those bad neighbors, the Mets. Better to sell than be outdrawn by the Mets...
Barry spent most of his week at his Washington apartment, where he began to tinker with the machinery that would propel his $15 million campaign for the presidency. Among other things, he decided to kick off the campaign with a mid-August speech in his "lucky town" -Prescott, Ariz., where he launched both of his successful Senate campaigns...