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Despite the eager support of President Nixon and the managing of former Red Sox great Ted Williams, the Washington Senators lost yet another of the traditional baseball season openers in the nation's capital yesterday, this time to the New York Yankees, 8-4.
Baseball's 100th year began when Nixon lobbed out the first ball after the traditional chatting and joking with Williams in the Presidential box before the game. The fans seemed more excited about the new Washington manager however, and Williams received a standing ovation that exceed the applause for Nixon...
If you're into that sort of thing, 100 Riflesproves a swell massacre, teeming with hatred, passion, sex emotion, plot, O God all sorts of things like that. I dimly registered that Gries had shot it well and put it together much better than he had Will Penny, and cheered...
-James MacGregor Burns, Williams College, author of Presidential Government: "The Eisenhower Administration was a fine consolidating Administration, with all the benefits that come from consolidation and with all its problems. But the serious questions are whether then, or at any time, we can afford consolidation. The greatest thing about Eisenhower...
Boston fans are not noted for their unwavering loyalty. They jeered Ted Williams through every grand derisive gesture, and even the consistently heroic Bill Russell is treated to a cacophony of catcalls during his rare falls from hard-court grace. But this year Brahmins and Black Irish alike have had...