Mantle Adapts to First Base in Yankee Comeback Bid
Houston reports Mickey Mantle says switching to first base is easier than expected. He trains under Johnny Neun watching for errors, aiming to preserve his bat as the Yankees seek a rebound after a 1966 last place finish. Mantle notes relief in camp and jokes about Dr Strangeglove No 2.
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Science Brings Miss South Africa To A&M Campus
Mrs. Ernest Uken, Miss South Africa and wife of a South African scientist, spends a year at Texas A&M in College Station. The couple, on leave from the South African National Institute for Metallurgy, will work at the Activation Analysis Research Laboratory as he heads a neutron activation lab. Mrs. Uken, former Miss Jean Carter of Johannesburg, is 5 feet 6 inches tall with hazel eyes, a zoology and botany graduate, and tennis player. She notes South Africa’s rugby as the closest analogue to football and comments on the Aggie band and Military Day cadet review.
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