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Slim Chance. By being named Secretary of the Navy, John H. Chafee has escaped temporary political limbo. Last November, he failed to win a fourth term as Governor of overwhelmingly Democratic Rhode Island, after pro posing a state income tax. At that time, his chances of getting a job in the Nixon Administration seemed slim indeed. He had backed George Romney's abortive bid for the presidential nomination. He then switched to Nelson Rockefeller, and finally, at the Miami Beach convention, openly opposed the nomination of Spiro Agnew for Vice President...
...June 1967, Grant B. Cooper flew to Danang to win acquittal for a Marine sergeant charged with murdering a Vietnamese civilian. The boy's parents paid his fee, but the grizzled lawyer picked up the air fare. When somebody asked him why he went all the way to a battle zone halfway round the world, Cooper replied: "I've never defended a man in a military court before." Most probably he took on the Sirhan case-without pay-because he had never defended an accused assassin before...
...every male had been allowed the opportunity to contribute equally to the gene pool," writes Fox, "then we might have been forever stuck as Homo stupidus." He and others, notably Washburn and British Ethologist Michael Chance, have devised theories for explaining how the banished, peripheral males might eventually win their spurs...
...Which was the last non-Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup? When...
...youngest pitcher ever to win a major-league game...