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...club in three or four years. No longer is there room for the player who does not have big-league possibilities but can do quite well in Class AA for 10 or even 15 years. I listened with incredulity during spring training of 1964 as a major league scout, wearing a Banlon and Bermuda shorts in the box seats of Al Lopez Field in Tampa, said the death of the minors was an act of mercy. "It got rid of the 'baseball bum,'" he said. "You know, these guys who spent their whole life in the minors, with no hope...

Author: By Paul Hemphill, | Title: 'Baseball Bums' and the Graceville Oilers | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

...total number of tickets sold in this fashion varies anywhere from five to forty per game. In the past, the program has sponsored many groups from the Philips Brooks House as well as untold numbers of local cub scout packs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Kids Get Cut-Rate Tickets | 10/17/1968 | See Source »

...Scout Dogs. In the immensely difficult environment of Viet Nam, such far-out attempts are taken entirely seriously. Animals play a major role on both sides of the conflict. More than 1,000 dogs are in action on the allied side alone, and nearly 100 veterinarians serving in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam help care for them. German shepherd scout dogs lead jungle patrols sniffing out ambushes. Often they are more alert than their masters: last week, a U.S. Marine company commander took heavy casualties in an ambush after ignoring a dog's warning. The shepherds have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PURPLE GEESE & OTHER FIGHTING FAUNA | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Communists also use dogs and, for that matter, a whole zoo of combat animals. They occasionally drop cats into tunnels and spider holes to divert allied scout dogs. They have been known to stampede water buffalo into American defensive wire and mines. They like to leave snakes and spiders in bunkers and underground complexes in order to keep U.S. troopers from investigating them. Not long ago, a Special Forces patrol came upon an ingenious booby trap that consisted of a basket filled with poisonous snakes. Its writhing contents would have cascaded on a man tripping the wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PURPLE GEESE & OTHER FIGHTING FAUNA | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...what used to be the Syrian Heights but is now called the Golan Heights. All young kibbtuzniks belong to a national movement of kibbutz youth, which holds four meetings a year to discuss the goals of their mode of living. The affair has all the trappings of a boy scout jamboree...

Author: By Richard B. Markham, | Title: Living in Israel: A Delicate Balance | 9/30/1968 | See Source »

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