Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, July 3, 1969 Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, July 3, 1969 { 1 S .!.; . .. I C'l U"3Trw-i ' rTrV "Tlh W 0l ' ANYMt1 The Texas Wedge MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS J:XiT¢ieia"-: itx}::: .::Si . *:-: : : : .;:.: .: u : .p ":{. +p . . . . . . :;.. TreshMcLain pace Tiger victory { . MRCN- EGE......,....;. ;i'..NAINLLAU r R Pe g rV O yAMIERICAN LEAGUCE NATIONA asLEAGUE East Cast it L { .ct lV T . Pot. flu A case against Space By DREW BOGEMA A great spectacle is about to come off. We're going to the moon! Come July 16th American expertise will point a missile toward the middle of the sky. A mighty thunderclap will roar as powerful boosters fling the capsule far into distant space. And, with luck, its shiny hull and sturdy legs will land a pair of astronauts upon the distant sphere that for so long has preocupied our fantasies and haunted our perversions. Back home we will watch each stage in silent, uneasy, antici- pation, lest unknown forces. or human error destroy the precious moments of our long-awaited glory. Such a triumph! A man on the moon! How distant and remote it seemed a decade back after the Soviet Union hung thier abrasive Sputnik over our heads and put Ike and all of us to shame. How could we, our leaders cried, allow these inferior Communist blackguards relegate dear America to second-place? And then, on top of it all, that balding brat had the audacity and conceit to announce that his ideas and men would bury our dearest dreams! Our spirit fell, our heads hung with futile dread. A new chief- tain gained power as we waited with delight for the national exert- ion to catch and surpass those devils with their inhuman ideas and unChristian ways. After all, our national way was synonymous with good, our heritage of ingenuity the wonder of the world, the things that happened in the States, some claimed, fore- shadowed the eventual history of mankind. We waited with ap- prehension for our confidence and.-spirit to be restored, our labor and achievement to once again be vaulted high for all the world to see and marvel at. BUT WAIT Something's wrong here. Doubt lurks closely to the edge of our collective conscience and the ugly head of guilt is raised to suggest a dubious purpose, a childish whim, a mis- begotten deed. Magazines and journals ask whether the accomp- lishment will represent a laurel or a thorn. Our national priori- ties lay elsewhere, some say, in the ghetto perhaps,min controlling the machines, in straightening out our foreign policy, in destroy- ing our empire. But never mind them, they do not matter; their spokesmen and ideas a potpouri. of tommyrot and riffraff; evil saboteurs of our deepest dreams. A cosmic vision will arise! One that promises to free man from the narrow concerns and selfish interests that plague our ideals with avarice, greed, ambition, and ignorance, one that will free us from war, exploitation, tyranny, and blight. We will communicate with the stars, contact distant civilizations whose knowledge will guarantee ever greater strides toward the event- ual ascent to the utopia of man. We will extend our control across the heavens. We will compress our civilization and export it past the Milky Way. Man will finally control nature. But then again, if we cannot control ourselves where are we? Will not the adventure of the rocket and its crew foreshadow a momentuous expansion and ruthless colonialization of the solar system? Will we not transmit our ever-increasing capacity for destruction along with the same ideas we have for so long sought and failed to, make real? Together- with the infinite ra- tionality of our computers will not also travel our fiercest pas- sions, prejudices, and conflicts? Will the immensity of our task be able to transcend the always evident barbarous, ugly, and brutal nature of man? Will not the divisions, rivalries, and loyalties that mark us as separate, the ones we carry with us into the heavens just transform its serenity intq another battle- ground for our senselessness? FOR SURE, we do not have a chance to -win. The technocrats are insistent upon doing their thing. The sights, the knowledge, the joys, the mysteries all demand that we increase and enhance our effort to a peak of exhilaration not collectively felt since the end of Hitler's War. Our leaders will tell us that we must maintain our present rate of research and development because of the possibility our enemies will stick warheads to their satel- lites, to surprise our sleep with a merciless attack some early dawn. It is not possible to once again begin to iron out the reasons why we are enemies the differences between cultures and nations, to accept the continuing heritage of hatred and deceit but force resolution through a new sincerity? Our panic and hysteria, however, has been conditioned into our minds by the mentors of science fiction - the Vonneguts, Bradburys, Heinleins, and Clarkes. It is entirely possible that space exploration will not involve any of the aforementioned dangers. It is possible that the nations of the world will develop an international agency to control development in a most ra- tional and careful way. It is possible that the interest and moti- vation that pushed us into this unrewarding adventure will wane, making it indeed possible for men to turn inward to the waste- lands of our culture. But it is not likely. Can you imagine a distant day when people ask why such expansion came about? . What will we say? "It seemed a good idea, at the time," "because it was there,", or maybe, "we had nothing better to do?" Far better it would be after we have put a man on the moon for us to quit, lending our expertise to the United Nations if they decided such a venture was in order. Along this line of /thought, witness the wisdom of Lewis Mumford: "Any square mile of inhabited earth has more significance for man's future than all the planets in our solar system. It is not the outermost reaches of space, but the innermost recesses of the human soul that now demand our most intense exploration and cultivation." By The Associated Press DETROIT-Tom Tresh and Don Wert belted'home runs and drove in three runs apiece last night, making it easy for Lenny McLain to become the American League's first 12-game winner as the De- troit Tigers walloped Boston 7-0. McLain, 12-5, scattered eight hits as the Tigers extended Bos- ton's losing streak to five games and moved within one-half game of the second-place Red Sox in the American League East. Tresh slammed his third homer in two days and a pair of singles while Wert hit his third homer to give Detroit a 1-0 lead in the second. The Tigers' long ball spree in- cluded four doubles in a three- run sixth as Bill Freehan, Jim Northrup, Jim Price and Wert all collected two-baggers off Red Sox starter and loser Bill Landis. He gave the 25,487 fans a scare in the eighth when he was hit in the left leg by a line drive off the bat of Dick Schofield. McLain re- covered the ball, threw out Scho- field and fell to his knees but shook off the injury and contin- ued to pitch. Cubs crunch Expos ' MONTREAL-Rookie Jim Qualls drove in the first two runs of his major league career with a fourth inning triple and sparked the Chi- cago Cubs to a 4-2 victory over Montreal last night. Qualls' blast scored Willie Smith, who had singled, and Randy Hundley, who. had walked, snap- ping a 1-1 tie and sending Bill Stoneman down to his eleventh loss in fifteen decision. Qualls eventually came home on Don. Kessinger's sacrifice fly. The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the first on singles by Kessinger and Glenn Beckert and Ron Santo's sacrifice fly. Montreal tied it in BULLETIN OAKLAND (OP) - Slugging Reggie Jackson continued his assault on the home run rec- ords of Babe Ruth and Roger Madis Wednesday night, slam- ming his 31st, 32nd and 33rd as the Oakland Athletics whipped Seattle 5-0. daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: LEE KIRK ing the New York Yankees to Baltimore their second straight victory, 3-2, Boston over the high-riding Baltimore Dashrit Orioles. New York W L P 55 23 43 33 41 32 ; 41 39 3 38 42 . 29 47 I I 7 the third on Stoneman's double and singles by Gary Sutherlandr and Rusty Staub. The other Expo tally came on singles by Mack Jones, Bob Bailey and Coco La- boy. Phils stretch streak PITTSBURGH - Reliever Al Raffo drove in three runs with a single and a squeeze bunt while pitching his first major league victory as, Philadelphia battered Pittsburgh 14-4 last night for their ninth straight victory. Raffo capped a four-run second inning with a two-run single and then squeezed in an insurance run with a bases-loaded bunt in the sixth. Starter Billy Champion gave up: two runs in the first and left the game with two outs and the bases: loaded. Raffo got Fred Patek to hit into a force out to end the: inning. Yanks clip Birds Mel Stottlemyre scattered eightl hits and Horace Clarke cracked' out three hits yesterday in pac-I The American League's Eastern' Division leaders snapped the streak in the ninth when they threatened to pull it out. Paul Blair led off with a double down the left field line and scoredon Frank Robinson's single to cen-I ter. Stottlemyre, however, got Boog Powell, who drove in seven runs Tuesday night, on a fly to center and forced Brooks Robin- son to hit into a game-ending double play. The Yankees got the winning run in the sixth on a pair of walks, a bunt single by Frank Fernandez and Bobby Murcher's. ground out, which scored Bill Rob- inson. Oakland Minnesota Seattle Kansas City Chicago California West 41 43 35 32 31 26 31 33 40 44 43 48 . Cleveland Pt.. 705 566 X62 513 475 382 569 566 467 .421 .419 .351 G11 11. 15 18 25 11 11 16 I '' k r 3 Los Angeles Atlanta San Francisco Cincinnati Houston San Di)ego. SWest 45 46 41 38 39 27 Chicago New Yor Pittsburg Philadellp St. Louis Montreal 29 30 36 34 40 54 . .# . W L . F 50 28 . k 41 34 . ll 38 40 hia 35 39 37 42 22 53 Yt. .641 .547 .487 .473 .468 .293 .608 .605 .532 .528 .494 .332 Results Ne-= York 3. Baltimore 2 Detroit 7, Boston 0 Washington 5, Cleveland 1 Kansas City 1, California 0 Minnesota 4, Chicago 2 Oakland 5, Seattle 0 Today's Games Washington at Cleveland Seattle at Oakland Minnesota at Chicago California at Kansas City Boston at Detroit Only games scheduled. Results Chicago 4, Montreal 2 New York 6, St. Louis 4, 14 inn, Philadelphia 12, Pittsburgh 4 Atlanta 9, Cincinnati 4 San Francisco 6, San Diego 3 Houston at Los Angeles, inc. Today's Games Chicago at Montreal New York at St. Louis Atlanta at San Francisco Cincinnati at Los Angeles, night only games scheduled. 71. 12 13 131, 26'. 5',, 21'. ANN ARBOR COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES (Bet Midrash ) Sponsored by ThmeDetroit College of Jewish Studies (midrasha) SUMMER COURSES - HEBREW-Beginning, Intermediate, and Conversational Mr. Shmuel Raz, Tuesday and Thursday 7 p.m. (tentative) -For further information call 971-1865- YIDDISH-Intermediate. 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Rosie, a 20-year-old pro who tours with Mrs. King, won only 13 points in the lopsided match that brought only the barest rip- ple of applause from the 15,000 fans packed around the center court. The spectators, however, rock- ed the staid old tennis center with applause as Mrs. Jones, a 30-year-old blonde, rallied to up-' set Mrs. Court 26, the top-seed- ed played from Australia, 10-12, 6-3, 6-2, in a two-hour classic. The men's semifinals will be played today with Arthur Ashe, the No. 1 American from Rich- mond, Va., trying to hold the fort against three Australian pros. Ashe will meet Rod Laver, the defending championaand top seed. Tony Roche, beaten in the final by Laver last year, will take on John Newcombe, the champ- ion in 1967 when Wimbledon still was an all-amateur tournament. The men's final will be played Saturday, with Laver favored to make it two straight and four in all. He also won in 1961 and 1962 as an amateur. Mrs. King, an erratic player most of the year, hopes to emu- late California's Helen Wills Moody, who won Wimbledon four straight times - 'from 1937 through 1940. She may be hard pushed by Mrs. Jones. This was Ann's eighth semifinal but it will only be her second final. Two years ago Billie Jean beat her in the championship match in straight sets. The Briton, racing around the court like a youngster, ran up 5-2 leads in each set. She didn't let down after losing the opening set to Mrs. Court's strong come- back. Mrs. Jones just kept on hitting and running in an exciting match that had the crowd in an up- roar. Both played magnificent tennis but the British star was up for her greatest game. In thefinal set she broke the powerful Aussie's strong service three times in four games. It was one of the finest women's matches ever played here and both received a standing ova- tion as they left the court. The defeat ended the Austra- lian's hopes for a grand slam. She had won the Australian and French titles on her comeback this year. Mrs. Court, the 1963 and 1965 Wimbledon champion, had retir- ed and then married. She decided to return to big-time competition for just one year. All Mrs. King had to do in her match was to keep the ball in the court. Rosie, normally a busty- bustling player, seemed to have legs of lead and the match was a slaughter. She seemed scared to rush the netand her serves sailed gently over the barrier, asking to be killed. KEEP AHEAD OF YOUR HAIR! " NO WAITING * 6 BARBERS 0 OPEN 6 DAYS The Dascola Barbers at Maple Village-Campus LeeeomRing JULUY 4,1776 .K..r rr-MICHIGAN COUNGl. TO REPEAL T HE DRAFT -... -- ---mmm mm m..--------------- ------m.. -- ----- ------- m Enclosed is my contribution: $.._ _which will be used to continue the work of MCRD's all volunteer staff and friends. NAME____ -. --______ ADDRSS CITY ZIP cf ;myb ae u cD 99Nra AnAbr c 80 I I I r . 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