Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went after Israeli installations. The Israelis responded with fighters and Hawk antiaircraft missiles, and the battle was on. Late in the day, the opposing propagandists entered the fray. According to Egypt, six Israeli planes were downed and one Egyptian plane was lost. The Israelis, citing photographic proof, said that seven Egyptian jets were downed and two more damaged, and admitted no losses. Over the next two days, when Israeli jets again lashed at Egyptian positions along the canal, Egyptian aircraft made only one attempt to intercept them...
...film will probably be noted less for its deliberate ironies than for its unconscious one. Last month, after seven years of marriage, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom were divorced...
...home team also boasts a man whose performance has been worthy of the highest admiration-bespectacled Frank Howard. While Jackson is relatively unprepossessing in appearance, Howard at 33 is absolutely forbidding. One of his home runs once splintered a bleacher seat 530 ft. from the plate. A veteran of seven years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 6-ft. 7-in., 260-lb. first baseman was always a prodigious but sporadic long-ball hitter. Only after he was traded to the Senators in 1964 did he begin living up to his potential. In 1968 Howard led both leagues with...
...have slammed 28 home runs apiece. In the National League, San Francisco's Willie McCovey and Cincinnati's Lee May also have 28, while Atlanta's durable Hank Aaron has 24, to bring his career total to 534. With the season little more than half over, seven or eight hitters thus have a shot at hitting 50 or more home runs-a feat that has been accomplished by only nine players in major league history.* If 1968 was the year of the pitcher, 1969 may well be remembered as the year of the fence-busters...
Born. To Mario Andretti, 29, the diminutive auto-racing ace, record-breaking (156.867-m.p.h. average) winner of this year's Indianapolis 500, and Dee Ann Andretti, 27, his wife of seven years; their third child, first daughter; in Bethlehem...