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...single, a sacrifice, and another Yale error made it 3-0 in the fourth, and an inning later came Balboni's home run. A hit batsman, a single, and an error preceeded his mighty swat down the left-field line...
...travel writers. Searching for a virgin field, Author-Traveler John Sack turned to 13 of the smallest and least important nations, seminations and oddball principalities he could find, from seagirt Lundy (pop. 21), ten miles off the coast of an indifferent England, to the Middle Eastern principality of Swat (pop. 518,600), whose wily Wali encourages the tourist trade, according to Sack, by personally inspecting the toilet drains in his nation's only hotel...
...most Alaskans, for both he and Seattle Correspondent Russ Sackett had spent weeks in the territory when the bill was in the House, reporting the cover story on Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), and both had acquired a glow of personal discovery for the "land of beauty and swat." Schulman blushed a modest red when enthusiastic Alaskans told him that TIME'S cover had stirred enough general interest to help give the statehood bill its final push through the Senate. For a report on the final steps to statehood, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The 49th State...
...proposals, drawings and samples of 49-star flags. Suggestions: five rows of five and four rows of six; 49 stars in a wheel; 49 stars spelling out U.S.A. The 49th star is still waiting. For the story of what it may represent, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Land of Beauty & Swat...
...young Mike began spending his summers near Fairbanks working in his father's "Cat" and mines. For bought $5 a food day, for he the drove a camp, sometimes packed in 35-40 lbs. on his back across swampy terrain. Alaska's beauty and swat got him; he decided to take a permanent swat at it himself...