Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then those upstarts Out West decided that movie stars and smog weren't enough--they needed a baseball team also, two in fact. So the Giants finished third and the Dodgers seventh. 1959 prospects looked rosy. Then the ex-Polo Grounders pulled their 1951 rally in reverse, and nails were chewed all along the Big Sur--until Larry Sherry...
...ANGELES, Oct. 4--Aging Carl Furillo came through again for the Dodgers with a two-run pinch single in the seventh that propelled Los Angeles to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox today before a record World Series throng of 92,294 at the uncovered Coliseum...
...sports car rally, the course may lead over mountain pass and dirt road, through herds of cattle and city traffic, and the only sure way of covering its crises is to ride along. That is what TIME'S Bayard Hooper did in the seventh running of the Continental Divide Rally, the toughest of them all. Signed on as navigator to Sam Arnold in a British Peerless, Hooper brought his driver home a creditable seventh -from which he was disqualified in advance, since he had already scouted the course in line of duty. See SPORT, Rally in the Rockies...
...murder of John Guzman, 16, seventh teen-ager killed in street-gang violence in New York City in the past three months, fueled up already blazing feuds between Bronx street gangs. Two days after the killing, police headed off a massive outbreak of violence by nabbing ten Royal Knights allies who were waiting on a Bronx rooftop to ambush an oncoming invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before...
Last year the Los Angeles Dodgers finished in seventh place, a dismal 21 games from the top. This year the team had no pitcher that could win 20 games, no slugger challenging for the home-run or runs-batted-in titles, and the best-hitting regular was Wally Moon with a bare .300. But at the start of last week, the Dodgers galumphed into the lead by shattering the league-leading Giants in three successive games, unceremoniously tumbling them from first to third...