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...Dark got himself fired - for telling a newsman that Negroes and Latins are no match for white ballplayers "when it comes to mental alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants' manager for 1965. Most experts picked the Giants to finish no better than fifth, one rung down the ladder from last year. They had only one lefthanded pitcher on their roster - Bob Hendley - whom they swiftly traded off to Chicago. Star Slugger Orlando Cepeda (31 homers, 97 RBIs in 1964) was laid up, maybe permanently, with an injured knee. Leftfielder Willie McCovey was suffering from bone spurs and fallen...
Onward & Upward. In 1933 Shuman married Ida Wilson, an Indiana-born math teacher. By that time, he was climbing the ladder in the Farm Bureau, which he joined in 1929. By 1945 he was the $7,500-a-year president of the statewide Farm Bureau. Its offices were in Chicago, but Shuman decided it was best for his four children to grow up on the farm. After nine years, Shuman moved into the top spot of the national organization in 1954. Ida, whom he credits with having provided much of his drive, died four months before his election...
...army of the resentful and desperate in the North is an army without generals−without captains−almost without sergeants." For this lack of responsible leadership he found a cause that most politicians are too polite to mention: "Too many Negroes who have succeeded in climbing the ladder of education and well-being have failed to extend their hand to help their fellows on the rungs below. Civil rights leaders cannot with sit-ins change the fact that adults are illiterate. Marches do not create jobs for their children...
...last week when there was a blast and a flash of flame. "The lights went out," recalls Gary Lay, 18, who was cleaning up debris on the second level. "Everybody was hollering, 'Let's get out of here!' I tried to go down a ladder, but it was jammed up with men. So I went through the fire." Hubert Saunders, 59, was painting a door on the topmost level inside the "gun barrel," a concrete and steel-plated tube that sheathes the missile. "I looked down and saw smoke coming up," says Saunders. "I heard...
...impossible to open the 700-ton steel and concrete lid that seals the silo airtight. As flames devoured what little oxygen there was, several men tried to crawl into air-conditioning ducts. The elevator was stalled for lack of power, and the only way up was a single ladder. Trapped workmen piled onto it in panic, and two wedged themselves hopelessly together in one narrow section of the ladderway, blocking those behind them. All 53 remaining in the silo died...