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Streak Hitter. This April Willie hit .347 and clouted eleven homers to set a new record for the first month of the season. He also capped the month of June against the Philadelphia Phillies with his 28th homer to set yet another record for the first three months of the season. Now, with 32 home runs and 89 runs batted in, he is well on his way to his best season ever. Even so, Willie refuses to be overly confident-and for good reason...
...course which King chose-or more precisely, the press chose-for himself and the movement was set not so much upon a place as a time. That time was 1963. As history bad recorded it up until Williams's book, it all came down on August 28th in Washington. "It was Martin King's day. The march was a pure, unfettered, tasteful triv??h; the I Have a Dream speech is history now, and the dream is dead. But that day, that...
...Crimson victory will earn the varsity its 28th consecutive regular season victory, a string which stretches over the past seven season...
...what of the Americans, who with five men and four women constituted one of the smallest teams in Nagoya? They finished 21st in the women's standings, an even more lackluster 28th in the men's. Where table tennis is concerned, the U.S. is still not far from the basement...
...assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen and the hamlet chief. Farther north, in the Central Highlands, the seasoned North Vietnamese 28th Regiment temporarily overran Fire Base Six, capturing four U.S. advisers and killing or wounding some 200 ARVN troops...