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EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, in 1954. Jackie Robinson boarded a plane with an umpire who had known him since 1946 when Robinson was a rookie in the International League, playing for the Brooklyn Dodger's Montreal Royals farm club. The previous year, 1945, Robinson had met with Branch Rickey, then the...
That first year in Montreal, when he became the first black to play in the white leagues in more than fifty years. Robinson led his league in batting, fielding, and runs scored. The following year, brought up to Brooklyn, he led the Dodgers to the National League pennant, despite the...
Shortstop Maury Wills who has stolen more bases than any other major league baseball player in history was placed on waivers yesterday by the Los Angeles Dodgers Wills recently turned 40 was used little this season ten years after he broke Ty Cobb's mark by stealing a record 104...
Several secondary factors have also contributed to the decline of the liberal schools. They have come to the end of the era of such theological stars as Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. They are no longer deluged with draft dodgers and dissidents-or even the great numbers of social activists...
The Vice President suggested that draft dodgers should be put into uniform even if the Vietnam war ends. He said that the men killed in Vietnam cannot be "remembered and revered" if "we are extending the hand of forgiveness to those who ran away."