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...star first baseman for Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants. Oh has 634 lifetime home runs against Aaron's 733 and expects to pass Aaron's total one day. At their Saturday contest, each batter will select a pitcher and then use half an hour trying to rap baseballs out of Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. For his appearance, Aaron will make $50,000, win or lose. As for Oh, he warms up for each game by gulping down a secret mixture of Korean ginseng and honey, and expects to emerge victorious. "I'm younger than he," says...
...Indian smugglers. Mastaan likes to wear Western-style clothes topped with a white silk turban, gives generously to both Moslem mosques and Hindu temples, and by his own account has bought politicians of every party and persuasion. Though arrested several times before, until now he has beaten every rap that was ever brought against him, including a murder charge...
...public interest continued, as well as rumors about what really had happened. According to one theory, Kennedy delayed reporting the accident so that he could sober up. Another was that he had talked Gargan into taking the rap but changed his mind the next morning...
George C. Scott, perhaps hoping that no one will notice him, disinterestedly portrays a heist artist named Walter Upjohn Ballantine, who, in the words of an admirer, is the possessor of "the most spectacular rap sheet" in the FBI'S files. Among Ballantine's most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called...
FLOWERS: This is a bad rap for President Nixon. We might as well resurrect President Johnson and impeach him posthumously for Viet Nam and Laos as impeach President Nixon for Cambodia. We might as well resurrect the memory of John Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs. President Truman in Korea...