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Green Stealer. Many of them are still as green as their infield rug, but they have lots of time for growing. The team's average age is 23.8 years. All-Star Second Baseman Joe Morgan, 22, whom the Astros plucked three years ago from California's Oakland City College, was hitting .315 until last week, when a batting-practice liner crunched into his right kneecap, putting him out for three weeks. With Rookie Shortstop Sonny Jackson, 21, a .296 hitter who fields like a jackrabbit and steals bases on the side (24 this year), the Astros have...
Those were heartwarming words, but onetime Republican U.S. Senator William F. Knowland, now publisher of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, rushed to offer more practical aid. He wired $300 to be used to pay the fine or help finance an appeal to Oregon's highest state court...
Spelling Out the Rules. Heyns listened to all suggestions for new campus rules that would ensure a free flow of faculty and student opinion on any topic, however unpopular. Then he spelled out the rules clearly-and insisted that they be followed. He urged Oakland city officials to issue parade permits to students demonstrating against the Viet Nam war; but after the protesters erected a sign board larger than the rules permitted, he ordered it torn down. Similarly, Communist Bettina Aptheker, an F.S.M. leader, and two Vietnik friends last February held two rallies in a week on Sproul Hall steps...
Government leaders also rated high in the judgment of colleges, both great and small. Winning five honorary degrees each were Robert Weaver (Columbia, Illinois, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, Delaware State); Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (Ohio Wesleyan, Fairleigh Dickinson, Oakland, Morehouse, Loras); and Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield (U.S.C., Lafayette, Ottawa, Spring Arbor, Monmouth...
...buttons. The junior league must pay an "indemnity" of $18 million to the N.F.L.-$10 million of which goes to the New York Giants and San Francisco Forty-Niners in return for agreeing to share their territory peacefully with two A.F.L. teams (the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders). Four new franchises will be granted before 1970, and the result will be a combined "National Football League" of 28 teams in 27 cities, divided into two 14-team conferences, each with two seven-team divisions. The reason for all that division? "Imagine," sighs an N.F.L. official, "how it would...