Word: slams
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Hank Aaron's 15th grand slam home run, a National League record, highlighted an eight-run seventh inning uprising Friday night and sparked the Atlanta Braves to a 9-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs...
Offense was the name of the game, as the Harvard batmen smashed out 18 hits and built up a 11-0 margin after three innings. Joe Mackey, who entered the contest with a team-leading .410 batting average, knocked out five safeties, and Dan Williams clouted a grand slam home run, leading the Crimson to its 11th win in 14 outings...
...ENGLAND Governors Conference wisely refused to adopt a plan for a regional "special offenders" prison last week, though its instructions to state correctional officials to "review, evaluate and adopt any provisions of the report" don't exactly slam the door on the plan's implementation in the future. William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at the School of Public Health, developed the plan for the prison, which has prompted vocal opposition from the New England Prisoners Association, Massachusetts's assistant commissioner for drug rehabilitation, and the American Friends Service Committee, among other people...
...basket, floor-bound opponents are flabbergasted by a human helicopter who can soar from the foul line to the backboard with magnificent ease. With Erving handling the red, white and blue A.B.A. ball, a standard stuff shot turns into airborne acrobatics, often ending in a backward, over-the-head slam dunk. A lay-up is embellished with the kind of fakery that the Harlem Globetrotters made famous...
...Lacerating though he and some of his rivals have been to the Administration, Wright makes a candid and astonishing confession: "I'm afraid we've lost our capacity to be vicious. We don't seem to get cartoons with explosive impact any more, the kind that slams somebody right between the eyes with no subtlety at all." He is too modest about his ability to slam. In fact, his work should satisfy the keenest appetite for cartoons that bludgeon...