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...must to all streaks, an end came at last to Joe Di Maggio's batting spree. In a night game in Cleveland's vast Municipal Stadium, just two months and two days after starting the longest batting streak in the history of major-league baseball, Joe went hitless...
...longest-running story from Washington in the past two years has been about the problems of Ronald Reagan's White House staff and Cabinet. The trials and tribulations of Meese-Deaver-Baker and Shultz-Clark-Weinberger have probably been covered as thoroughly as any specific issue of the economy or national security. The story keeps replaying day after day like a bad soap opera. Through it all has been the not-too-faint suggestion of an Executive structure stalled and befuddled by ignorance or enmity and always on the brink of explosion or collapse...
...third straight possession, Dixon grabbed the spotlight. Healy had left with a shoulder injury near the end of the third quarter: when his replacement. Bill Turner, tried to hit tight end Mark Triplett near the sideline for a short gainer, Dixon just stepped in the way for the ninth-longest interception return in Crimson history...
...Black South Africa accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman. Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South Africa history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
...swimming team extended its winning streak to 32 meets, currently the longest streak in NCAA Division I swimming. The swimmers added first-place finishes in the Greater Boston Championships and the Eastern Seaboards to their 12-0 dual-meet record...