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...most American cities, last Wednesday was a summer's day much like any other. Hot. California beaches reported record sales in ice cream, while New York headlines announced that the Mets had just fired Manager Yogi Berra. But it was not a day just like any other. It was the day on which, 30 years before, a bomb known as "little boy" fell on Hiroshima...
...York Mets' firing of Yogi Berra last week brought the total of dismissed managers since late July to four. The three others: Kansas City's Jack McKeon, Texas' Billy Martin and the Yankees' Bill Virdon (since replaced by Martin...
Here, for instance, is the American as son-of-Godfather: Bill Bonanno's thought processes, writes Sheed, "reminded me of Yogi Berra reading Gospel comics." Or the American as prototypical, George Meany-like labor leader, with "the gravelly voice, abraded in drafty meeting halls, the face of many weathers, and that style-watchful, patient, sufficiently charming for the political side of things. He tends to be built for sitting up all night, like a beer bottle, and his backside is probably as callused by now as his hands...
...England alone, there are more than 3,000 teachers of yoga, many of them instructed in the "nondogmatic" regimen by Yogi Shri T.R. Khanna Ho, who arrived in Boston from the Himalayas 15 years ago. Author and teacher, he also maintains an ashram, or yoga retreat, in Newton, Mass., which lists as permanent residents some 20 devotees ranging from salesmen to scientists. An internationally known yoga Merlin is Californian Richard Hittleman, 47, whose expertly produced Yoga for Health TV series is shown in a dozen foreign countries, and last week made its debut-twice daily each weekday-on Manhattan...
...York Yankees for 21 years; of emphysema; in Miami. A topflight amateur golfer in his 20s, Topping bought a piece of the Yankees in 1945, became co-owner and president two years later. He caused major rhubarbs by firing two pillars of the Yankee dynasty, Managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra, but won 14 American League pennants before quitting the front office in 1966. Sleek, perennially tanned, Topping was married six times (to Actress Arline Judge and Skater Sonja Henie, among others), divorced five...