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...Phillies have the same trouble. If Bunning could duplicate his 1964 season, (19-8), the Phils would be in good shape for pitchers. Lefthanders Chris Short (17-9) is a topflight pitcher, Ray Culp and Art Mahaffey had undistinguished rocords last year, but both have had good seasons before, and both are young. Bo Belinsky, and elderly Ray Herbert, two acquisitions from the American League, are also in the picture, and two adequate starting pitchers will undoubtedly emerge from among the four. Jack Baldschun is a capable reliever...
Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
Most teams have one topflight quarterback, if that. The Bills boast two: Jack Kemp, 29, who led the San Diego Chargers to two straight Western Division championships before going to Buffalo on waivers for $100; and Daryle Lamonica, the ex-Notre Dame star, who has engineered winning touchdown drives in four of the Bills' seven games...
...listening ministers is far removed from that of most clerics. In Las Vegas, the Rev. Richard Mawson is a full-time desk clerk at the Sands Hotel, and works after hours with the people he meets in the hotels and casinos along The Strip. The Rev. Frank Evans, a topflight amateur skier, lives and works at California's famed Squaw Valley ski resort; his tactful counseling has helped save dozens of faltering marriages...
...possible. Five of the seven seminaries are within a few minutes' walk of one another on what Berkeleyites call "Holy Hill"; the others are within easy driving distance. But what made the Union necessary was the high cost of academic improvements. Although the individual seminaries have plenty of topflight teachers - Old Testament Scholar James Muilenberg at the Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, Systematic Theologian Keith Bridston at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - none of the schools ranked among the nation's best. Only two had doctoral programs, and their libraries ranged from average to inadequate. Back...