Year 1966 Brings Change Across Pro Sports
A look at 1966 shows upheaval in baseball with Koufax and Drysdale testing reserve rules, the NFL and AFL merging amid big bonuses, the Braves moving to Atlanta amid court fights, NHL expanding to six new franchises, and NBA and AFL growth in several cities. The piece links these shifts to postwar American life and population boom.
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Sandy Koufax
Don Drysdale
National Football League
American Football League
Braves
Atlanta
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
National Hockey League
NHL
Los Angeles
Oakland - San Francisco
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Minneapolis —St.Paul
National Basketball Association
Chicago
Miami
Fla
AFL
NFL
Unresolved Crimisal Suit May Unseat Powell
Culver says Powell likely to be unseated if criminal contempt and defamation cases remain unresolved. He questions travel and nepotism rulings and discusses Eastern Europe travel notes, noting differing reforms and pro American sentiment in Poland Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
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Powell
Culver
John C. Culver
Iowa Second District
Citizens Times
Adam Clayton Powell
Congress
Washington
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Slovenia
Vietnam
Henry Ford
Scoda
Cedar Rapids Sailors Named for Vietnam Duty
News notes Builder First Class ANTHONY F SHORES USN son of Joe Shobes of 105t H Ave Cedar Rapids Iowa will serve as a Good will Ambassador in rugged enemy villages of South Vietnam as a member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four. He is one of 13 men selected from his battalion homeported at Port Hueneme for training Marine Private LYNN A RUTHERFORD son of Mr and Mrs Glen D Rutherford of 507 35th St NE Cedar Rapids Iowa has completed
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Anthony F. Shores
USN
Joe Shobes
H Ave
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
South Vietnam
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four
Port Hueneme
Lynn A. Rutherford
Glen D. Rutherford
35Th St. N.E
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Marines train four weeks at base with four Marines
Four weeks of individual combat training at the Marine Corps Base included over 200 hours of instruction on weapons and patrols led by combat veterans. Corporal Steven R. Alt and Lance Corporal John C. Bradley, both Cedar Rapids youths, serve with First Battalion First Marine Regiment in Da Nang as they take part in search and destroy missions to win local support for the South Vietnamese government. Professor David A Mul holland, son of Cedar Rapids residents, returns home on a 21 day leave from Fort Leonard Wood Missouri.
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Marine Corps
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
First Marine Regiment
First Marine Division
da Nang
Vietnam
South Vietnam
David A, Mulholland
Phillip Mulholland
8Rd St. S.E
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
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Puerto Rico
House
America
Europe
Harold’Hughés
News of
Steven R. Alt
Robert Alt
25Th Ave
Lance
John C. Bradley
Donald Bradley
Eighth St
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