Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Third Baseman Clete Boyer (salary: $27,000) to the Atlanta Braves, for a minor-league outfielder named Bill Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised. "I can't complain," he shrugged-but neither...
Nobody yet knows how mergers of this kind will affect trade-book publishing, though many bookmen are pessimistic. Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, envisions huge factories that will turn out books like sausages. Big publishers "are through as serious influences in literature," he says. William Jovanovitch of Harcourt, Brace disagrees. He believes, with many other experts, that television, for instance, "has increased the use of books by contributing to an ambiance of information, art and instruction. Greater assimilation of information means greater literacy, and greater literacy means greater use of the language. And that's good...
...seen a flagrant boo-boo like that, any field judge would have tossed down his yellow flag and penalized Navy 15 yards for having an ineligible receiver downfield. Right now, though, Navy's 1963 All-America Quarterback Roger Staubach, 24, pretty much has to throw to his old teammate, former Navy Guard Fred Marlin, 26. There aren't too many other decent receivers at the U.S. naval base at Danang in South Viet Nam, where Ensign Staubach is stationed as a supply officer. Jolly Roger keeps his passing arm limbered up by working out with Fred...
Vicious Speech. This fall Chancellor Roger Heyns has been facing student pressures with a growing firmness. He refused to readmit Savio as a student when Savio broke rules against nonstudents distributing literature on campus. Heyns said that the students' public-address system in front of hallowed Sproul Hall disturbed classes, carried "speech that is often vicious, dishonest, laced with slander and character assassination and often charged with hatred," and proposed moving...
ROMAN AFRICA IN COLOR by Roger Wood and Sir Mortimer Wheeler. 160 pages. McGraw-Hill. $25. A tour of dead cities washed by the Mediterranean, with their groves of white columns, deserted temples, amphitheaters, markets and wheel-rutted streets. The Roman Empire in Africa stretched from Alexandria on the border of Egypt across to Tangier on the Strait of Gibraltar; its remarkably preserved ruins give the best picture of the Ancient World available today...