Robinson Eyes Major League Manager Job
Baltimore star Frank Robinson aims for baseball’s managerial pinnacle. He credits George Powles for shaping his game and says a Negro manager will emerge soon, naming Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, and Bill White as potential successors. He reflects on mentors Bauer Tebbetts Dykes and others, and notes his plan to stay in baseball through leadership rather than playing forever.
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New York
Frank Robinson
Robinson
Associated Press
Bauer Birdie Tebetts
Jimmy Dykes
Mayo Smith
Fred Hutchinson
Dick Sisler
Roy Campanella
Willie Mays
Junior Gilliam
Ernie Banks
Bill White
George Powles
Oakland
Calif
American Legion
McClymonds High School
California
Curt Flood
Joe Gaines
Vada Pinson
Jesse Gonder
Oakland Area
Women Are Really The Weaker Sex
Hinsdale Illinois AP a study of 1002 stop smoking clinic attendees at Hinsdale Sanitarium shows 37.9 percent of men remained abstinent after a year while all but 29.4 percent of women relapsed. Dr Charles L Dale cites emotional factors and work pressures as causes with will power and motivation as the cure. Clinics run five nights with films demonstrations and buddy system support. He warns against gradual withdrawal or switching to cigars or pipes and against medicines that may form new habits.
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Babe Ruth
Robinson
Cincinnati Reds
Baltimore Orioles
Orioles
Los Angeles Dodgers
Cincinnati
Beaumont
Tex
Los Angeles
Ted Williams
Joe DiMaggio
Sandy Koufax
Hank Bauer
Baltimore
Hinsdale, Ill
Charles L. Dale
Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital
Dr. Dale
Navy Surgeon Recalls Escape From Oxygen Fire in Space Test
Navy flight surgeon Cmdr Francis Highly recounted the 1962 space capsule test fire in which four men suffered burns from a 100 percent oxygen environment. He described stripping to escape flames after a spark from a faulty circuit, smashing a porthole, and exiting the chamber within 45 seconds. The incident underscored fire hazards in pure oxygen atmospheres and the challenge of extinguishing electrical fires at high altitudes.
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Great Lakes
Francis Highly
Associated Press
Highly
Aerospace Crew Equipment Laboratory
Philadelphia
Navy
Marine Corps
America
el Salvador
Cedar Falls Ends Largest Vietnam War Sweep
Operation Cedar Falls, a 19 day U.S. assault in the iron triangle north of Saigon, broke the back of the Viet Cong in the area. Maj. Gen. William De Puy and U.S. commanders say it marked a turning point with 1.5 million pounds of bombs, 1000 air strikes, and 720 Viet Cong deaths. American casualties reported as light. 316 prisoners released or captured. vast Viet Cong documents seized. Civilians evacuated about 7,000. engineers felled tunnels and cleared roads for future use. The Viet Cong may not regain the area, though reentry is possible.
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Cedar Falls
George McArthur
Saigon
George McArthur Long Binh
South Vietnam
Jonathan Seaman
U.S
William Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Seaman
Iron Triangle
William de Puy
Guam
Vietnam
Red
Connally Says JFK Image Was Fading
Texas Governor John B. Connally condemned William Manchester's Look magazine excerpt on Kennedy's death as a propaganda device. He asserted Kennedy's declining popularity influenced the Texas trip and criticized the book as prejudice driven history. Connally spoke in Austin and refused further comment.
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Connally
JFK
Robert Heard
Austin
Tex
William Manchester
Texas
John B. Connally
John F. Kennedy
Manchester
Look Magazine
Kennedy
Johnson
Sen
Ralph) Yarborough
Dtex
Washington
Dallas
John Tower
R-Tex
Tower
Gaffney Family Rides In To Graduation In Two Cabs
New York AP report: Thomas Patrick Gaffney a probationary transit patrolman, graduates from the Police Academy in Brooklyn. He brings his wife Barbara and nine children to the ceremony, claiming two cabs carried the ten family members from their home as other graduates contributed a dime toward the transportation solution. Mrs Gaffney is expecting her 10th child next May.
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New York
Thomas Patrick Gaffney
New York City
Police Academy
Brooklyn
Barbara
Woman saved from leap by patrol officer and bystanders
Los Angeles police officer A H McMillen spotted a woman about to jump from an overpass onto a busy freeway. He grabbed her left arm and clung for five minutes as she dangled above traffic. Three passers by assisted in pulling her to safety.
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Los Angeles
A.H. McMillen
Ito
McMillen
Charlyng Chatman
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William Stewart
Westminster
Esther Mill
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Frederick
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Cline
E. Patrick
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