South Vietnamese Rhade (or Ede) tribesmen in the central plateau, one of several so-called Montagnard groups who have little sympathy for either the Saigon government or the Việt Cộng, revolt and demand autonomy for the tribes of the mountainous areas. The revolt begins on the 20th when about 500 tribesmen kill some 50 ARVN troops at a U.S. Special Forces camp near Buôn Ma Thuột, the capital of Đắk Lắk Province. Eventually General Khánh will appear to negotiate an end, but U.S. military plays a major role in keeping South Vietnamese from attacking the rebels. The tribesmen also seized a Special Forces camp at Bon Sar Pa, close to the Cambodian border; again, U.S. military advisers negotiate. And on the 27th U.S. helicopters are allowed to evacuate 60 South Vietnamese hostages in Bon Sar Pa. (Another Montagnard group had surrendered on 26 September after U.S. advisers mediated.) By the 28th, all the Montagnards have capitulated.
There are about a million mountain tribesmen in the country, and they make up the main population of the sparsely settled central mountains. Some authorities group them under the collective name of the Moi and say they probably have Mongolian, Indonesian and Caucasian blood. They appear to be Buddhists. These Montagnards regard the lowland Vietnamese as their long‐time enemies. But efforts have been made recently to integrate the tribesmen into the nation and the armed forces. The tribes occasionally have demanded autonomy. The Communists, or Việt Cộng, tell the Rhade and other tribes that if Communism wins in South Vietnam the mountain people will be given their own nation. The tribesmen have darkerskin than the lowland Vietnamese, wear little clothing and speak an entirely different language. The United States Special Forces have been working with them for several years, organizing them into irregular fighting units for combat patrols in the mountains. They have scored some successes, but the desertion rate has been high. Deserters generally take their weapons with them.
Asian Communists appear to have emerged from the naval incident Friday night in the Gulf of Tonkin with a significant propaganda gain at the expense of the United States. Observers here reviewing the East‐West balance sheet said the incident typified how Hanoi and Peking could exploit both uncertainty in Washington and the American communications media. Stung by the August clashes in the Gulf of Tonkin with United States naval forces that damaged the prestige of Hanoi and Peking, North Vietnam was evidently geared for another incident. The new incident occurred when United States destroyers opened fire is the Gulf of Tonkin at about 10 PM Hanoi time, according to the Communist version of the events.
The initial Defense Department announcement that United states warships had been involved in an unspecified incident in the gulf was made after 3 PM Washington time, or 3 AM Hanoi time. Less than seven hours later, a statement of the North Vietnam Foreign Ministry commenting on the Defense Department announcement was being fed into the Communist communications system. Shortly after 10 AM Hanoi time, Hsinhua, the Chinese Communist press agency, was transmitting the text by radio teletype. There was no delay, as there had been in the August clashes when both Hanoi and Peking reacted in confusion.
When the United States charged on August 2 that North Vietnam torpedo boats had attacked the destroyer Maddox, Hanoi made no reply until August 5. North Vietnam acknowledged the incident, but denied that the second attack had been made on August 4 on the Maddox and the destroyer C. Turner Joy. The Hanoi statement was issued after United States carrier‐based aircraft had retaliated on August 5 against North Vietnam naval bases and other shore installations. The speed of the Communist reaction after the naval incident Friday night apparently was directed at heading off another retaliatory strike by United States forces and to gain a propaganda advantage in the developing crisis.
A 50‐year‐old Vietnamese man burned himself to death today in front of his home in Saigon, apparently as the result of a family quarrel.
An editorial in Jenmin Jih Pao, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper, warned the United States today that it must “at once rein in on the brink of the precipice.” The United States was “preparing to step over the brink of war’’ against North Vietnam,” the front page editorial said. All today’s Chinese press coverage of the incident — regarding which few details were known here — asserted that the incident was an American concoction and part of a plan to extend the Indochinese war. But the reaction was muted compared to that which followed the bombing of North Vietnamese naval bases last month.
For the first time in her long and eventful history, Malta became independent last midnight. Under the Nationalist Prime Minister, Dr. Georg Borg Olivier, she remains in the British Commonwealth. Amid day and night celebrations, the Labor party headed by former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, which opposed the form of independence, staged some protest demonstrations. A police official was knifed in one fray. But during the night the sky was bright with bursting rockets and colorful flares. Bonfires were lit and church bells pealed throughout this tiny island group in the Mediterranean to signal the end of 35 centuries of successive rule by Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Germans, Angevins, the Knights of St. Johns, France and finally Britain. There was a burst of booing at the moment the Union Jack came down. But policemen rushed into the crowd and the boos were drowned out by waves of cheering. Some of the demonstrations appeared to stem from the fact that some Maltese are anxious about their future outside the British fold. Some have wanted independence but not with the continuing economic and defense ties with Britain that were part of the independence bargain.
Communist China announced today its recognition of Malta, Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, reported. Premier Chou E‐lai cabled congratulations to Dr. Borg Olivier. Foreign Minister Chen Vi sent a message announcing the decision to recognize Malta and expressing hopes for the development of friendly relations.
Turkish Cypriot women, surprised while building an unauthorized roadblock, routed the Canadian troops who caught them at it with stones and clubs last night. With bayonets fixed, two sections of Canadians in the United Nations peace force withdrew in a hail of stones and abuse because, the United Nations reported, “the situation threatened to get out of hand.” Several Turkish Cypriot irregulars had Sten guns pointing at the Canadian troops during the incident and threatened to open fire. Several Canadians were bruised by stones and clubs, but no serious injuries were reported. Second Lieutenant Francois Bertrand of Montreal was cut under one eye. The Canadian patrol first came upon the Turkish Cypriots as they were dumping earth from trucks to build the new roadblock at about 8 PM in the suburbs of Trakhonas near the line dividing Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
The Turkish Cypriots contended that they were erecting the barrier to protect refugees from the threat of Greek Cypriot guns. United Nations officers said tension had been rising in the area in the last few days, with Greek and Turkish Cypriots shouting insults at each other across the no‐man’s land. Under orders to keep the road open, the Canadians’ commander, Major Yves Gosselin of Quebec, urged the Turkish Cypriots’ leaders to stop work and remove the earth. When they refused, he ordered two armored personnel carriers into position. Then about 15 women armed with shovels and sticks closed in on the soldiers near the vehicles and the commander called for a company section to reinforce the patrol. More women arrived and refused even the pleas of a Turkish Cypriot leader on the scene to go away. Speaking in French, Major Gosselin ordered the soldiers to fix bayonets, but under no condition to use them. The soldiers pushed the women back a few yards, but with the women screaming, five male Turkish Cypriot civilians fingering knives and 15 Turkish Cypriot fighters pointing guns, the major decided that things were getting out of hand. He ordered the troops to withdraw.
Swedish Premier Tage Erlander’s Social Democratic party won four more years of power in yesterday’s general elections and apparently picked up three seats in the lower house of Sweden’s Parliament. Unofficial tabulations early today gave 117 of the 233 seats in the lower chamber to the Social Democrats, who have dominated Sweden since 1932 except for three months in 1936. The 117 represented just enough for an absolute majority.
President de Gaulle flew from Paris this morning to begin the longest and most ambitious tour ever attempted by a French President. Many of his political associates fear that the 73-year‐old general may be unable to stand the rigors of a trip that will take him to 10 South American countries and involve frequent and rapid changes of altitude. Officials also are worried about the possibility of attempts on President de Gaulle’s life by exiled members of the Secret Army Organization who now live in South America and whose enmity for the man they consider the “betrayer” of “their” French Algeria is unchanged. The outlawed organization fought first to prevent and then to negate Algerian independence, employing threats, bombings and assassination. Stringent precautions under the advice of French security officers, sent on ahead, will be taken in all the countries to be visited — Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil.
The only political party allowed in Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella’s National Liberation Front, received 86.8% approval in a yes-no vote in the Algerian parliamentary election. Official figures showed that 671,430 voters (13%) out of the 5,177,631 cast disapproved of the slate of candidates for the 138 seat National Assembly.
The Congo Conciliation Commission decided tonight to meet Congolese rebel leaders in an effort to bring peace to the former Belgian colony. The nine‐nation body will go to the Congo to make contact with rebel forces who control one‐sixth of the country. The Congo’s Premier, Moise Tshombe, pledged the full cooperation of his Leopoldville Government in assisting the commission. It was created earlier this month at a meeting of the Organization of African Unity at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro’s Government said tonight that it had crushed a guerrilla uprising in eastern Bolivia begun by plotters seeking to overthrow the regime and set up a junta. A communiqué said the plot, attributed to the rightist Socialist Falange, aimed at the assassination of President Paz and other high officials.
The 339-ton Japanese tanker Nikka Maru sank immediately, drowning all nine of its crewmen, moments after colliding with the much larger (11,223 tons) British freighter Eastern Take off Nagoya, Japan.
Senator Barry Goldwater said today that the Johnson Administration had a “crisis-of‐the-week” foreign policy. The Republican Presidential candidate said in a statement: “This Administration’s lack of purpose, direction and even honesty in its conduct of the cold war has led to what now may be described as a crisis‐ofthe‐week foreign policy. This weekend’s crisis involves Vietnam and another incident in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Administration has tried to manage the news so that the incident is forgotten as quickly as possible. They cannot, however, sweep a war under the rug.”
Mr. Goldwater said the American people had been given no details of the incident for almost two days and he asked whether a cover‐up had been attempted by the Administration or whether there had been confusion of communications. He also asked how the incident had differed from the attack last month that resulted in an American air strike against North Vietnam.
Administration leaders will push this week for action on a legislative must list that could keep an unwilling Congress in session until scarcely two weeks before the election on November 3. At least six, possibly eight, major pieces of legislation must be acted on before Congress adjourns, the Senate majority leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, said today. These are the outstanding legislative issues:
An increase in Social Security taxes and benefits, plus health insurance for the aged. The Senate endorsed the healthinsurance feature, the House did not. The bill is now in conference.
An authorization of $3.3 billion for foreign aid. Action has been blocked in the Senate by efforts to attach a rider delaying court‐ordered reapportionment of state legislatures.
An extension of the National Defense Education Act. This bill, also embracing aid to education for areas where there are large Federal installations, is now in conference to resolve Senate and House differences.
An appropriation of $998,623,374 in supplemental funds for a variety of programs, including antipoverty projects, civil rights enforcement, mass transit and food stamps for the needy. The House will take up this catchall bill on Tuesday; the Senate has not yet acted.
Authorization for the United States to participate in the system of world coffee quotas set by the International Coffee Council. Passed by both houses, this bill is in conference.
An extension of the law under which surplus United States farm products are shipped abroad under the Foodfor‐Peace program. This, too, has been passed by both houses and is in conference to adjust major differences. The Administration is expected to decide Tuesday, at the weekly breakfast at which legislative leaders confer with President Johnson, whether to push also for bills to aid Appalachia and to pump additional funds into the area‐redevelopment program. Senator Mansfield said he hoped to get the nearly billion-dollar Appalachia measure through the Senate. The measure is expected to encounter stronger opposition in the House.
It is considered likely that President Johnson will insist on action on the Appalachia measure, in view of the recent attack by Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican Presidential candidate, on the Administration’s antipoverty program. Action on any part of the legislative must list this week could rest largely on efforts of Congressional leaders to round up absent members. Impatient with the absenteeism that has plagued both houses of Congress in recent weeks, Senator Mansfield sent off a number of telegrams over the weekend, demanding that campaigning Senators come back and “get to work.”
Asked what would come up this week in the Senate, Senator Mansfield said today: “A quorum, I hope.” The Senate failed to get a quorum (more than half the membership three consecutive days last week. The House too, failed to provide a quorum last Monday.
Senator Barry Goldwater’s plan to cut taxes by 25 percent is making President Johnson look like the very model of a fiscal conservative. And politics being what they are, the Administration is playing the part to the hilt. The Senator’s proposal enabled Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon to lash out at him in a speech last week to business executives assembled by the nonpartisan National Industrial Conference Board. Mr. Dillon implied that Mr. Goldwater was advocating extremism in promising automatic 5 percent reductions in both corporate and personal income taxes in each of the next five years. It is difficult to quarrel with this assessment, even though Mr. Dillon was less than candid about the Administration’s own policies. The Senator’s proposal is extreme.
There is nothing moderate about the size of Mr. Goldwater’s planned tax cut, which would dwarf the huge reductions made this year. But the really startling feature of the plan is its automatic nature, which is aimed at making the government smaller and the economy freer. Prof. Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago is reportedly responsible for the Senator’s plan. A staunch believer in getting the government out of economic affairs, he also has suggested eliminating flexible monetary management by making automatic increases in the money supply. If anything, the tax proposal is more extreme. It also is unrealistic, for there is no chance that Congress would ever give up its cherished powers to levy or reduce taxes. The President can propose changes in the tax laws, but he is powerless to act without Congressional approval.
Robert F. Kennedy defended the Supreme Court yesterday against the charge by Senator Barry Goldwater that it is soft on criminals and obsessively concerned with civil rights. The former Attorney General, who resigned a few weeks ago to run as the Democratic Senatorial candidate, told a suburban Jewish congregation that the court’s recent landmark decisions on criminal law, race relations and apportionment of state legislatures showed the way to a just and responsible society. He said Senator Goldwater, the Republican Presidential candidate, sought to reverse the general trend of the court’s decisions that had led toward “more civilized law enforcement.”
There is no turning back, Mr. Kennedy told 450 persons at the Free Synagogue of Westchester County, Mount Vernon. “These decisions are not going to be changed,” he said. “This country is not going back to a time when a woman could die in the street because a state law would not let a person of her color into the local hospital. It is not going back to a time when Negroes were barred from voting and the Federal Government did nothing about it.”
President Johnson renewed his promise today to give the nation’s underprivileged an economic helping hand. His pledge was made to West Virginians in Morgantown less than 48 hours after Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican Presidential nominee, had come to this state and heaped scorn on the motives of Mr. Johnson’s antipoverty program. The President declared: “God has commanded, us: ‘They shall not harden their hearts to the needy.’”
According to a poll to be published this week by Newsweek magazine. President Johnson has improved his standing in the South and is running even with Senator Barry Goldwater in the 11 states of the Deep South. The survey, which was conducted by Louis Harris, shows Southern voters favoring the President’s position on every issue except civil rights. Southerners, by a ratio of 3 to 2, believe that Mr. Johnson can best keep the country out of war, deal with Premier Khrushchev, or respond to a sudden world crisis. On civil rights, Senator Goldwater is preferred by 60 percent of the voters.
Leaders of the United Steelworkers of America indicated today that the union would seek substantial wage and other contract improvements next year that might breach the guideposts laid down by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. David J. McDonald, president of the union, noted the absence of wage increases in recent contract settlements of the union. The greatly increased prosperity of the basic steel industry in the last two years, he said, should make it possible to make “substantial progress” in improving wages and meeting other problems posed by the rising cost of living and the effect of automation on job security.
A majority of white New Yorkers questioned here in the last month in a survey by The New York Times said they believed the Black civil rights movement bad gone too far. While denying any deepseated prejudice against Blacks, a large number of those questioned used the same terms to express their feelings. They spoke of Blacks’ receiving “everything on a silver platter” and of “reverse discrimination” against whites. More than one‐fourth of those who were interviewed said they had become more opposed to Black aims during the last few months. But only a small number of them gave any indication that their voting habits had been affected by this change in their attitudes, which in some quarters is called a “white backlash.”
Steeplechase Park, an amusement park that had operated on Brooklyn’s Coney Island for 68 summers, closed permanently at 7:35 in the evening. The farewell was marked with a band playing Auld Lang Syne and a bell tolling 68 times, marking the end of its 68th year. One author present would recount that “Thousands of lights were switched off slowly, row after row on each toll of the bell. As it turned out, the park went dark for the last time.” Four days earlier, the Bronx’s amusement park, Freedomland U.S.A., had closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy after five-seasons as “The World’s Largest Entertainment Center”.
Günter Grass’ play “Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand (The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising)” premieres in Berlin.
The Beatles close out their first North American tour returning to New York City, for a benefit concert titled “An Evening With The Beatles” at the Paramount Theatre; the show was for the United Cerebral Palsy of NYC charity, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé were also on the bill.
20th America’s Cup yachting: Eric Ridder skippered Constellation beats English challenger Sovereign for a 4–0 American series sweep off Newport, Rhode Island.
Jim Bouton, intent on repeating as a 20‐game winner as well as a World Series participant, took another giant step toward both goals yesterday by holding the Kansas Athletics to two singles and pitching the New York Yankees to a 4— 0 victory. Bouton faces 28 batters, one over the minimum. Bouton walked none, although he did hit one. Wayne Causey was clipped on the right elbow in the fourth inning and had to leave the game. Rocky Colavito then hit into an inning‐ending double play and became the first of 16 consecutive batters to be retired by Bouton in the remainder of the game. Dick Green, the second batter of the first inning, singled through the middle but was thrown out stealing. Bill Ryan looped a single to right with two out in the second, and then became the only man the Athletics left on base. The Yankees stay in first, a game ahead of Baltimore, who split with the Angels.
The Baltimore Orioles lost more ground to the red‐hot New York Yankees in the American League free‐for‐all today by splitting a doubleheader with the Los Angeles Angels. The Orioles scored the most runs of the year off Dean Chance (five), worked him for the most walks (six), thwarted him from gaining his 20th victory — and still lost the opener, 8–5, in 10 innings. Then they revived, bombed three Los Angeles pitchers for seven runs in one inning and won the second game, 8–2, for Wally Bunker’s 17th victory of the year. However, the Orioles suffered the No. 1 moment of irony of the day when the Yankees shut out the Kansas City Athletics, 4–0, just as Baltimore was routing Chance, who worked six and two‐thirds innings. The Los Angeles right‐hander had pitched 10 shutouts in compiling baseball’s best earnedrun‐average, 1.49. But the Orioles couldn’t make it stick when the game went into extra innings. As a result, Baltimore lost half a game and 3 percentage points to the Yankees, who now lead by one full game, and lost half a game and 4 percentage points to third‐place Chicago.
Marve Staehle, a rookie infielder who joined the club last week, drove home the winning run with a pinch single in the sixth inning today as the Chicago White Sox gained a 4–3 victory over the Washington Senators. Ron Hansen opened the sixth with a single to left and advanced to second on Gerry McNertney’s sacrifice. After Gary Peters, the pitcher, fouled out, Staehle lined a single to left, scoring Hansen. Washington took a 3–0 lead in the first inning when Roy Sievers hit his seventh homer of the season after a walk to Chuck Hinton and a single by Don Lock. Peters, the slugging southpaw who picked up his 19th victory against eight losses, hit his fourth homer of the season in the second inning.
George Banks, John Romano and Larry Brown combined their forces for a total of seven hits, including a home run apiece, to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 7–2 victory over the Detroit Tigers in the second game of a doubleheader today. The Tigers rallied for two runs in the ninth inning to win the opener, 6–5. In the second game, Cleveland took a one‐run lead in the second against Dave Wickersham of the Tigers when Romano singled and then scored on Brown’s double. The Indians knocked Wickersham out of the game in the fourth when Banks singled, Romano hit a two‐run homer and Brown followed with a homer. The Tiger victory in the opener ended the Indians’ winning streak at six.
Tony Oliva, leading in the American League batting race, stroked four hits today and became the 14th. rookie in major league history to reach 200 hits as the Minnesota Twins crushed the Boston Red Sox, 12–4. Oliva’s first‐inning double was his 200th hit of the season. He later collected three singles driving in three runs. Bob Allison hit a two‐run homer, his 31st, for Minnesota and Bill Bethea doubled across a run in his first major league trip to the plate. Felix Mantilla socked his 30th homer and Carl Yastrzemski had a run‐scoring triple for the Red Sox.
The Philadelphia Phillies, snapping back after two consecutive losses, defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–2, today behind the five‐hit pitching of Jim Bunning and increased their league lead to 6½ games. The Phillies gave Bunning a two‐run lead in the first inning as the Dodgers showed the effects of last night’s 16‐inning, 4–3 victory. It was Bunning’s 18th victory against five defeats. The Dodger starter, Jim Brewer, was lifted in the fourth when the Phillies scored an unearned run. The Dodgers scored two unearned runs in the ninth to keep Bunning from his fifth shutout. Bunning struck out Johnny Roseboro in the 9th to preserve the Phillies’ win. The Philadelphia pitching star struck out six men. Brewer took his third loss of the season against two victories. The win comes after 2 straight losses and leaves the first place Phils in front of the National League by 6½ games with 12 to play. When they return to Philly in the early morning, 2,000 fans including Mayor James Tate are on hand to greet the team. But the Phillies are about to endure a nightmarish collapse at the finish line of the pennant race.
Cincinnati scored three unearned runs in the eighth inning today with the help of errors by Barney Schulz and Curt Flood for a 9–6 triumph over St. Louis. The victory pulled the Reds into a second-place tie with the Cardinals. Schultz fumbled a bunt by Sammy Ellis that enabled the Reds to fill the bases with one out. Then Pete Rose flied to Flood, but Flood dropped the ball, allowing Marty Keough and John Edwards to score. Chico Ruiz flied to Flood to drive in Ellis. The Reds battled back from a 6–0 deficit, tying the score with two runs in the sixth. Deron Johnson singled and Keough doubled. A single by Edwards drove them in.
Hal Lanier’s single in the 11th scored the winning run today as the San Francisco Giants edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–3. Orlando Cepeda started the 11th by reaching first on a throwing error by Al McBean. Haller, attempting to bunt, hit into a force‐out. He then stole second and scored on Lanier’s hit. The Giants had tied the score in the ninth on Haller’s homer after the Pirates had scored in the top half on singles by Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski and a sacrifice. Haller’s homer was only the fifth hit allowed by Don Cardwell. Harvey Kuenn got the first two off Cardwell, a double in the first and a single in the sixth, scoring both times.
The New York Mets started a three‐game series with Houston on Friday needing only one victory to capture the first season series in their three‐year history. They proceeded to lose the first two by scores of 3–2 and 2–1 and tonight they suffered even further embarrassment by mustering only two hits off Bob Bruce in losing the finale, 1–0. Thus, the Mets finished with a 9–9 record against the Colts. The one, slim remaining hope they have of winning a season series is by taking three of five games from the seeondplace Cincinnati Reds, whom they meet in New York this week‐end. The Mets currently hold a 7–6 edge over the Reds. Bruce, one of several pitchers in the.league who have never lost to the Mets, registered his fifth straight victory over them. He pitched a total of 19 innings against New York this year and did not allow a run. The victim of Bruce’s twohitter was 25-year‐old Tom Parsons, a rookie right‐hander making his first start for the Mets. The former Pittsburgh Pirate farmhand allowed only six hits, all singles, and did not issue a base on balls.
Home runs by Felipe Alou and Rico Carty backed Clay Carroll’s brilliant relief pitching today as the Milwaukee Braves scored a 5–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Alou smashed a three run homer, his eighth of the year, in the fifth inning to wipe out a 2–0 Chicago lead and hand the Cubs’ starter, Bob Buhl, his 13th loss against 13 victories. Buhl has won only one game in his last 13 starts. Carty hit his 20th homer in the sixth off Buhl. Carroll took over in the sixth after Wade Blasingame had left for a pinch‐hitter. The rookie blanked the Cubs on two hits the rest of the way.
NFL Football:
Baltimore Colts 21, Green Bay Packers 20
Chicago Bears 34, Minnesota Vikings 28
New York Giants 24, Pittsburgh Steelers 27
St. Louis Cardinals 33, Cleveland Browns 33
San Francisco 49ers 28, Philadelphia Eagles 24
Washington Redskins 18, Dallas Cowboys 24
Johnny Unitas threw two long first‐half touchdown passes for the Baltimore Colts today and the Colts checked the Green Bay Packers in the fourth quarter with two interceptions as the Baltimore eleven scored a 21–20 National Football League upset. Unitas tossed 52 yards to Lenny Moore for a touchdown in the first period and 40 yards to John Mackey for another in the second. In between, Moore ran over from the 4 in capping a 62-yard drive, the Colts’ longest of the game. Green Bay tied the score only once, in the first period, when Paul Hornung ran 20 yards for a touchdown and kicked the extra point. Hornung scored again in the second period on a 4-yard dash, but missed the conversion attempt, and that was the difference. Twice in the fourth period the Packers drove deep. The first drive ended on the Colt 28 when Jerry Logan intercepted a pass from Bart Starr. The second time Green Bay was stopped at the Colt 31 with less than two minutes to play as Don Shinnick intercepted a pass and the Colts ran out the clock. Baltimore’s pass rush dropped Starr six times for losses of 47 yards. Nevertheless, Starr completed 16 of 21 passes for 175 yards. Baltimore is the second team to defeat the Packers in City Stadium since Vince Lombardi became Packer coach in 1958. He had lost only two games here, both to the Chicago Bears.
Billy Wade threw three touchdown passes and ran for a touchdown today as he paced the Chicago Bears to a 34–28 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. It was the Bears’ highest point total in their last 12 National Football League games. Wade completed 23 of 31 passes for 344 yards and hit Rick Casares on a 51-yard touchdown pass and Johnny Morris on scoring shots of 13 and 10 yards. He also set up a fifth touchdown with a 33-yard completion. That touchdown, scored by Joe Marconi on a 3-yard dive with three minutes remaining, was the deciding tally. Minnesota got another touchdown with 63 seconds left. Fran Tarkenton of Minnesota passed for all four Viking touchdowns. He completed 22 of 34 passes for 305 yards. Wade deftly passed to Minnesota’s weak spot in its secondary, a rookie cornerback, George Rose, who was making his first start after Lee Calland broke his arm last week.
The New York Giants’ longtime habit of making the big plays that win football games has disappeared. In their contest with Pittsburgh today, it was not the Giants but the Steelers who made the big plays, and they won a game that other Giant teams of recent years would have taken easily. The score was 27–24 for the home side as a crowd of 35,053 looked on in Pitt Stadium. The Giants lost more than just a game. They also lost their No. 1 player, Y. A. Tittle, who went down under a vicious tackle by John Baker, a defensive end, near the end of the second period. Tittle’s face was white and etched with pain when he got up and the Giants quickly removed him to their dressing room. He did not reappear. Tittle, hit when throwing a screen pass that was intercepted for a Steeler touchdown, took a hard blow to the rib cage. He flew back to New York with the team and was immediately taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for X‐rays.
Jim Bakken of the St. Louis Cardinals booted his fourth field goal of the game with five seconds remaining to give the Cards a 33–33 tie with the Cleveland Browns today. The stalemate emphasized the role of the teams as co‐favorites to win the Eastern Conference championship of the National Football League this season. Bakken and Lou Groza of Cleveland also played to a sort of a personal tie as each man kicked four field goals and three extra points. Bakken’s final score of the game, however, was the most dramatic. He booted the ball 28 yards to put a finish to a wild and exciting contest before 76,954 fans at Municipal Stadium. Bakken kicked field goals of 30, 51, 44 and 28 yards. Groza’s went for 32, 12, 37 and 26. Charlie Johnson of the Cards set up the tying field goal by completing three quick passes to move the ball from the St. Louis 26. The Card quarterback engineered the late drive after Jimmy Brown had scored from the one‐yard line with 48 seconds to go. This touchdown put the Browns ahead, 33—30, and had most of the big crowd convinced that the local heroes would win. But Johnson, who passed for the Cards’ three touchdowns, worked perfectly in the last minute, hitting Joe Childress for 19 yards, Sonny Randle for 18, and John David Crow for 15 to set up Bakken’s tying field goal.
John Brodie’s long passes to Bernie Casey set up three short touchdown runs by Mike Lind, a fullback, today as the San Francisco 49ers posted a 28–24 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in a National Football League game at Franklin Field. Brodie, who missed 11 games last season because of a broken arm, continued his fine comeback as he hurled 11 completions for 267 yards. Casey, a former Bowling Green State University track star, caught six for 169 yards. He made most of the yardage as he outmaneuvered the Eagles’ deffender, Glenn Glass. The 49ers had to turn back a desperate last‐minute Philadelphia drive that went from the Eagles 5 to the San Francisco 9. At that point, Norm Snead threw three incomplete passes into the end zone. One pass was overthrown with a man open in the final 10 seconds. Brodie set the theme of the game in the first period as he threw to Casey for 35 yards and a first down at the Philadelphia 5. Lind carried over from there. Tommy Davis kicked the first of four conversions. The extra‐point increased Davis’s N.FL. record to 162 straight. Brodie threw a 47-yarder to Casey for a first down at the 10 with Lind finally racing over from the one in the second period. A 27-yard pass from Brodie to Casey helped set up a 3-yard scoring plunge by Lind.
Mel Renfro scored on a 39-yard interception return and set up another touchdown with a 46-yard kickoff runback today in leading the Dallas Cowboys to a 24-18 National Football League victory over the Washington Redskins. Bobby Mitchell of the Redskins dropped a pass in the clear at the Dallas 20-yard line with 2½ minutes to go. Don Perkins put the Cowboys ahead to stay in the second quarter with touchdown runs of 1 and 3 yards after he and Amos Marsh, who led the rushers with 95 yards, had put the ball in scoring position mostly on ground power. Renfro sealed the victory in the final period with his interception runback. His kickoff return started the Cowboys on the way to Perkins’s first score. Sonny Jurgensen of Washington had one of the worst days of his career, completing only six of 21 passes for 43 yards.
AFL Football:
Denver Broncos 13, Buffalo Bills 30
Boston Patriots 33, San Diego Chargers 28
Daryl Lamonica and Cookie Gilchrist sparked a crushing second‐half ground game as the Buffalo Bills routed the Denver Broncos, 30–13, today in an American Football League game before 28,501. Lamonica, who replaced Jack Kemp midway through the third quarter, passed and ran the Bills into position for the goahead touchdown, produced on a 1-yard smash by Gilchrist, who tallied twice, took turns marching the Bills to a field goal and an insurance score in the fourth period. Pete Gogolak kicked three field goals and three extra points as the undefeated Bills scored their second victory. Lamonica guided the Bills 56 yards in six plays, 38 on a pass to Elbert Dubenion and three on a sneak to the 1-yard line to set up Gilchrist’s second touchdown for a 20–13 edge late in the third quarter.
Babe Parilli threw three touchdown passes and Gino Cappelletti scored a club record of 21 points today to pace the Boston Patriots to an upset 33–28 American Football League victory over the San Diego Chargers. The Patriots’ triumph kept them tied for first in the Eastern Division while the Chargers remained ahead in the West. John Hadl led a furious late-4th quarter comeback that gave the Chargers a touchdown and a field goal, and a chance to win it with less than a minute on the clock. But Boston cornerback Ron Hall intercepted a pass at the Patriot 13-yard-line to preserve the win.
Born:
Steve Trapilo, NFL guard (New Orleans Saints), in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2004, of a heart attack).
Chuck Lanza, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers), in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.
Charles Buchanan, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Scott Kehoe, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins), in Oak Lawn, Illinois.
Tim Pidgeon, NFL inebacker (Miami Dolphins), in Oneonta, New York.
Maggie Cheung [as Cheung Man-yuk], Hong Kong film actress (“Clean”), in British Hong Kong.
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