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...Friday," said San Francisco manager Alvin Dark as he stalked off the field at Candlestick Park yesterday. The invading New York Yankees, with veteran lefthander Whitey Ford on the mound, had just beaten Dark's Giants 6-2. The playing was as lopsided as the score indicated...
...MOUND--Had the Giants not just played a three game play-off, pitching superiority would automatically be ceded to them. Jack Sanford (22-7), Juan Marichal (13-10), Billy O'Dell (19-14), and Billy Pierce (13-6) give them a great foursome of starters, and Stu Miller, Don Larsen, and Mike McCormick are more than adequate in relief. Against this lineup put Whitey Ford (17-8), Ralph Terry (23-12), Bill Stafford (14-9) and Bud Daley (5-3). Pretty obvious who's better. Marshall Bridges (3.17 ERA) is one of the best reliefers in the business...
...mound of King Alyattes (c. 600 B.C.), father of Croesus, was the scene of other underground explorations by members of the expedition. Measuring two thirds of a mile in circumference, this huge pile was compared by the Greek historian Herodotus to the pyramids of Egypt...
Crawling through tunnels less than two feet high, three architects of the expedition made the first modern survey of the underground passages and the marble chamber, concealed deeply within the 200-foot high mound...
...volunteers saying: "Sorry, but we are too busy to see you." At another village, a volunteer proudly showed Shriver a pungent compost pile he had collected to demonstrate the wonders of fertilizer to local farmers. "Just feel that heat, sir," enthused the volunteer as Shriver gingerly patted the reeking mound. At tour's end in Singapore, Shriver gratefully shucked his beat-up sneakers, khaki pants and sweat shirt for a natty tropical suit and reported that the corps is "doing better than I or anyone expected." Making the London scene was filmdom's Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson...