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After all the press hosannas over President Johnson's eloquent voting-rights speech to Congress, Commonweal's Washington Correspondent William Shannon weighed in with a sharp and sober warning: "President Johnson is running what may be termed the rhetoric risk. He likes to promise everybody something and to dream aloud, admittedly more often in the language of the Snopes family than of Aristotle, about the wonderful future that is acoming. As a Texan and an heir to that state's neoPopulist traditions, he is a natural master of the America-is-agreat-big-wonderful-barbecue school...
...misplayed an easy liner into a triple, Catcher Elston Howard was charged with two passed balls, and Third Baseman Clete Boyer watched a grounder trickle right between his legs-prompting a friendly note from Brother Ken: "No. 6, watch out for those hops. (Signed) No. 14." Cardinal Outfielder Mike Shannon put the finishing touch on a 9-5 St. Louis victory with a 500-ft. homer that clipped the leftfield scoreboard-between the B and the U in BUDWEISER. Said Shannon modestly: "I just closed my eyes and swung...
...Mike Shannon singled and Shannon and McCarver worked a double steal, McCarver scoring. Del Maxvill then singled in Shannon...
...Cards entered the sixth inning trailing the Yanks 4-2 as a result of Tommy Tresh's two-run homer in the second. But Ken Boyer singled and with one out, Shannon whacked a 450-foot blast off the left-field scoreboard in St. Louis' Busch Stadium...
With two out and Shannon on second, manager Yogi Berra ordered an intentional walk for pinch-hitter Bob Skinner. Flood singled in one run and Lou Brock's double scored two more to make...