U.S. Army Sergeant First Class George Willis Martin from Chattanooga, Tennessee was an Infantryman and ARVN Advisor, and U.S. Army Captain Robert Jude Reilly from Dobbs Ferry, New York was a Ranger Qualified Infantry Unit Commander and both were assigned to Special Detachment 5891, Headquarters, MACV Advisors, MACV. On October 11, 1964, the military vehicle they were riding in struck a landmine, killing both of them. SFC Martin was a 34 year old married father of one son when he died and CPT Reilly was 25 years old and the father of one son when he died. Robert is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. George is buried at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California. They are both remembered on the Wall at Panel 1E, line 66.
Two U.S. soldiers are killed by a land mine explosion 28 miles northeast of Saigon, bringing the official number of United States combat dead in the Vietnam war to 203. A military spokesman said an officer and an enlisted man had died in Hậu Nghĩa Province while United States advisers were accompanying elements of a Vietnamese Government battalion in the field. The spokesman said the battalion had not been in contact with Việt Cộng guerrillas when the mine exploded. The blast also killed a Vietnamese officer, tentatively identified as the battalion commander. All three were riding in a jeep, which was destroyed.
Meanwhile, reports from the Pleiku area, 220 miles northeast of Saigon said attacks against a cluster of eight fortified hamlets had left 200 burned structures. Officials said the hamlets, all part of one village, were “penetrated” yesterday by the Việt Cộng.
The Buddhists’ policy-making group issues orders to monks to condemn political agitation in the name of Buddhism; this is viewed as an attempt to disassociate the Buddhists from pro-Communist actions and seems particularly aimed at Thích Trí Quang, the radical Buddhist leader. In a series of private meetings late last week, officers of the Institute for Secular Affairs, political policy‐making body of the Buddhist structure, worked out stern instructions for monks throughout the country to limit their political activity.
The initial aim of the restrictions is to disengage the prestige of Buddhism from political agitation in central Vietnam, where the authority of the Saigon Government has been undermined. Vietcong influence has been detected in this agitation. Ultimately, according to qualified sources, the institute seeks to prevent the influential monk Thích Trí Quang of Central Vietnam from affixing a Buddhist seal of approval on his militant political stands, with which not all Buddhist leaders agree. Leading monks are striving to preserve the appearance of unity and to avoid an open schism. But strains are clearly visible. Guiding the political‐disengagement campaign is Thích Tarn Châu, rector of the institute. A North Vietnamese, he fled southward from Communist rule.
Tens of thousands of Greek Cypriots marched here today in protest against the British military bases in Cyprus. It was the biggest demonstration since Cyprus gained her independence from Britain four years ago and the first specifically directed against the two British sovereign bases on the island. One is at Episkopi, west of Limassol; the other is at Dekelia, also on the southern coast of Cyprus. The demonstration, called a “peace march.” was organized by the Communist party here. However, all the Greek Cypriot political movements participated. The demonstration lasted five hours, covered 15 miles and culminated in a mass rally in Limassol attended by a crowd estimated at 40,000.
At least two bombs exploded during the march. They were believed to have been detonated by Greek Cypriots. There was no damage or injury. The march began near the ruined temple of Apollo in ancient Curium, just inside the British sovereign base of Episkopi. The British authorities had given permission for the procession to pass through five miles of base territory on the way to Limassol. The demonstrators carried placards denouncing the bases and the West in general.
Rauf Denktaş, the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, said here today that if Turkey agreed to put the Nicosia‐Kyrenia road under United Nations control, she would have “given away her last point in Cyprus” and would have “nothing further to surrender.” In a statement in the newspaper Milliyet, Mr. Denktaş described the Turkish position on the strategic Kyrenia road as the “windpipe” of the Turkish Cypriot community and the only part of the island not yet under the “domination” of Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. For Turkey to give up her position in return for permission by President Makarios to relieve troops of the Turkish Army contingent in Cyprus would be to give away something vital in return for nothing, he added.
Turkish, Greek and British troops are in Cyprus under provisions of the independence treaties. The current tension on the island began last December when the Greek Cypriot‐dominated Government sought to curtail the legislative power of the Turkish Cypriot minority. Mr. Denktaş’s statement was the most open indication yet of a breach between Ankara and the Turkish Cypriot leadership. There is little question that delay in reaching agreement on the rotation of the Turkish contingent in Cyprus has been largely due to objections by the Turkish Cypriot community.
A pro‐Castro terrorist group said today that it would “try” Lieutenant Colonel Michael Smolen, deputy chief of the United States military mission in Caracas, Venezuela, as an agent of “blatant interference” in Venezuelan affairs. Colonel Smolen, a 45‐year‐old! Air Force officer and jet pilot, was kidnapped near his suburban home Friday by two terrorists, one armed with a submachine gun. The trial plan was announced in a typewritten note from the Armed Forces of National Liberation as thousands of Venezuelan policemen hunted in vain for Colonel Smolen. The note said the Colonel had been placed in “detention” by a unit of the terrorist group. It was picked up by a reporter after he received instructions from an anonymous telephone caller.
The sharp criticism of the United States voiced by speakers at the nonaligned conference in Cairo was considerably softened in the final communiqué issued today. Under pressure from the moderate delegations, the conference removed a demand made in earlier drafts of the communique that the United States immediately “abolish its base at Guantánamo” in Cuba. The final communiqué simply “urged” the United States to “negotiate the evacuation of this base with the Cuban Government.” As expected, the final declaration also called upon Washington to lift its embargo of Cuba and to open negotiations with the Government of Premier Fidel Castro aimed at settling the differences between the two countries and putting relations on “a normal footing.”
The declaration called for an “urgent” convening of a new Geneva conference on the persistent crisis in Indochina to bring about a peaceful settlement of the war in Vietnam. Primarily with the United States 20,000‐man military mission in Vietnam in mind, the conference also appealed to outside countries to “terminate all foreign interference in the internal affairs” of Southeast Asia. But this was balanced with a similar appeal for the “strict application” of the Geneva accords on Laos, where Premier Souvanna Phouma has been accusing the North Vietnamese Communists of illegally infiltrating 20 battalions of troops.
Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ottawa by plane tonight from Quebec, where her visit was marred by mild protests, more than a dozen arrests and aggressive police action. She and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, were met at Uplands Airport by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and the Governor General, Georges P. Vanier. An invited throng of several hundred persons gave the Queen a friendly welcome. Union Jacks and Canadian Red Ensign flags waved in abundance. In the French‐Canadian center of Quebec yesterday, the crowds were small and most of the city appeared indifferent to the Queen’s visit. Some French-language newspapers described the reception as “icy.” A few cheers and a few boos were raised by the Quebec crowds, but no hostility was aimed directly at the Queen. Her safety was never threatened and her motorcades were unimpeded.
The British Conservatives sought with a seeming measure of desperation today to stem a political tide apparently rolling toward a Labor victory in the general election Thursday. The latest Gallup opinion poll gave Labor a lead of 6 percent. From Conservative headquarters came an analysis of several recent polls designed to show they could mean anything from a Labor majority of 55 to a Tory majority of 90, and an announcement that 20 Government ministers would speak tomorrow. Viscount Blakenham, the Conservative party chairman, sounded the rallying cry at a news conference, the first of the campaign held by the Tories on a Sunday. The “risks” of a Labor Government will be “hammered home from every Conservative platform between now and Wednesday night,” Lord Blakenham said. “Some people are trying to pretend that the Conservatives are slipping and that morale is off,” he continued. “This is just not true. Morale is in fact excellent.” Dismissing as an “impertinence” the warning of Harold Wilson, Labor’s leader, against “last‐minute stunts and scares,” Lord Blakenham added: “But anyone who believes that we are not going to wade into the Labor party with all our strength has another think coming.”
Conservatives of the Roman Catholic hierarchy have begun a new effort to amend and tone down the proposed liberal statements of the church’s attitude toward the Jews and on religious liberty. This was the interpretation by informed sources at Ecumenical Council Vatican II of a move to take the two declarations out of the exclusive control of the Secretariat for Christian Unity and vest them in mixed commissions with heavy conservative representation. Orders for such action were in a letter received yesterday by Augustin Cardinal Bea, the liberal German Jesuit who heads the commission on Christian unity, expressing the will of the Council’s top leadership. According to one responsible informant, the letter said the changes were ordered with the assent of Pope Paul VI and was signed by the Most Rev. Pericle Felici. Archbishop Felici, a member of the Roman Curia, the central administration of the church, is secretary general of the Council. There were also reports that the letter came from Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Vatican Secretary of State and president of the Council Coordinating Commission.
Shanghai, the largest city in China, has sent more than 100,000 youths this year to the Central Asian province of Sinkiang (today translated Xinjiang), adjacent to the Soviet Union. According to reports from Shanghai, the largest effort, mainly involving recent graduates of junior and senior high schools, has been this fall. Peking has accelerated the settlement of Sinkiang since border and territorial issues have been raised in its ideological dispute with Moscow. The Soviet Union has been, accused of subversive activities and of enticing of tens of thousands of Muslims from the Uighur autonomous region of Sinkiang. The Russians, who jointly exploited the mineral resources of Sinkiang until 1954, have contended that the Muslims who have come across the border are fleeing Peking’s persecution of non‐Chinese minorities. The massive Chinese Communist settlement program in Sinkiang has served to shore up the defenses of the province and to displace the restive native peoples, mainly Turkic‐ speaking Muslims, with Chinese considered politically more reliable.
One young man was arrested here today for carrying a concealed revolver in a crowd awaiting President Johnson and another young man was arrested on charges of striking the President with a poster stick. The President’s hat was dented by the stick, but he was not hurt. Ronald Clarence Fetzer, 18 years old, of Phoenix was picked up about 20 minutes before the President’s jet arrived at Sky Harbor Airport when a Phoenix police detective, Andrew Watzek, found him with a loaded 22‐caliber gun on his person. Fetzer, who has been charged with carrying a concealed weapon, told the police he had gone to the airport armed to “protect the President against danger of death.” He is to be given a mental examination by the county medical officer, the police said.
Thomas Lee Wilkins, who will be 18 on October 28, was held on charges of aggravated assault after a “Goldwater‐Miller” political poster was swung at the President, crushing his hat. Two city detectives, George Loy and Norman O’Conner, who arrested Wilkins, asserted that he had swung the poster stick down hard in an attempt to strike Mr. Johnson. The stick glanced off Mr. O’Conner’s head, and he said it left a bump. The Phoenix police released both young men from custody in the evening. Fetzer was released on $308 bail. Wilkins was released without bail. Charges against the two were not dropped, however.
President Johnson staged a spectacular “nonpolitical” raid today on Senator Barry Goldwater’s home city of Phoenix. He started a vigorous two-day Western campaign swing with a four‐hour church-going stop here that was cheered by thousands lining a 10‐mile motorcade route in warm Sunday sunshine. The President’s Republican opponent was at his Phoenix home, resting from his own campaign, during the President’s visit. But this was clearly President Johnson’s day, in a city and a state that he eagerly hopes to win. During a stop on the motorcade route, the President declared that this was “God’s day,” and not one for political purposes. But at the same time he campaigned as hard as he has anywhere, stopping 17 times on the 10‐mile round-trip to shake hands and speak informally.
In South Gate, California, where he spoke later, the President’s motorcade moved on from a spot where it had stopped briefly when there was a report that a man was in the area with a telescopic rifle.
A House subcommittee cleared President Johnson and other officials today of any wrongdoing in connection with Billie Sol Estes’ grain storage dealings with the Federal Government. The investigators, however, severely criticized the Agriculture Department and other Federal agencies for failing to catch the Texas promoter as he used fraudulent manipulations to build up his now bankrupt multimillion‐dollar empire in cotton, grain and fertilizer. Democrats looked to the report by the House Intergovernmental Relations subcommittee to take some of the heat out of Senator Barry Goldwater’s charges that the Estes case was evidence of corruption in high places. The Republican Presidential nominee has fastened on the Estes and Robert G. Baker cases as a major issue.
The Baker case involves the former secretary of the Senate Democratic majority. An investigation is now under way on the question of whether he used his influence for private gain. The subcommittee in its Estes report suggested action to improve cooperation among Federal agencies, including a better exchange of information, and proposed closing a “possible loophole” in Federal laws. It said it had found no evidence of bribery, political influence or misconduct by Federal officials in Estes’ grain storage licensing. The subcommittee chairman said there was no evidence that political figures owned interests in Estes’ facilities.
The House report followed by 10 days a Senate committee finding that absolved Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and other farm officials of any deliberate complicity in Estes’ schemes. The Senate panel, however, rebuked the Agriculture Department for slipshod procedures that it said had enabled Estes to acquire Federal cotton allotments illegally. The House subcommittee, which dealt primarily with Estes’s grain storage operations, was far tougher in its condemnation of Federal procedures and what it considered a lack of coordination and communication among Federal investigators. It said this situation was no better today. The panel recommended that President Johnson “authorize and direct a comprehensive review of Federal audit and investigative activities.” This review, it said, should be aimed at “securing improved coordination and communication both among and within Federal departments and agencies,” inincluding the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
An Episcopal rector said yesterday that Senator Barry Goldwater’s scruples and personal honesty were less subject to question than President Johnson’s, but that the President’s position on civil rights concurred with the “vast consensus of Christian thought” in a way that Senator Goldwater’s did not. The Rev. R. Dewitt Mallary made the observations during his sermon at the All Saint Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York. Mr. Mallary is devoting his sermons during October to an examination of the current political campaign. Mr. Mallary examined the records of personal integrity of President Johnson and Senator Goldwater and discussed their respective positions on civil rights, which he called “the greatest single ethical issue in this campaign.”
“The attempt to exploit the riots of the past summer as being a result of the Black revolution and the civil rights bill is ample indication of the essentially racist character of the Republican candidate’s appeal,” Mr. Mallary stated. He continued: “While Senator Goldwater is not personally a bigoted or prejudiced person, he has opposed the legislation to correct gross injustices in our national life and he is in effect courting the racist vote by preaching states’ rights.” Mr. Mallary commended President Johnson for leadership in the passage of the civil rights bill. But he expressed misgivings about the President’s methods of acquiring his wealth. “There are some unanswered questions of both wisdom and integrity in Mr. Johnson’s mixing of public affairs and personal business,” he remarked.
As Senator Barry Goldwater’s campaign technique has become increasingly unusual, the reasons for the unusualness have become clearer. In his third nationwide television appearance last Friday, Mr. Goldwater, the Republican Presidential candidate, talked about both issues and himself. “You have probably been reading and hearing about some of the unorthodox things I have been doing,” Mr. Goldwater said. “I have gone into the heart of Appalachia, and there I have deliberately attacked the Administration’s phony war on poverty.” He went on to recall how he had attacked proposals for Federal medical‐care programs in Florida retirement country, the Tennessee Valley Authority in Tennessee and legislative reapportionment in urban areas. “I have done all these things deliberately,” he said, “for a reason that is clear in my own mind. I will not appeal to you as if you were simply pocketbooks surrounded on all sides by self‐serving concerns.”
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called on all registered Black voters yesterday to help administer a crushing defeat to Senator Barry Goldwater at the polls on November 3. Like other Black civil rights leaders who have abandoned their tradition of not publicly endorsing candidates, Dr. King spoke out as guest preacher at the Antioch Baptist Church in the Bedford‐Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn. Dr. King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said that the “negative” attitudes of the Republican Presidential candidate on human, political and constitutional questions had compelled him to make the moral decision to demand a crushing defeat for the Arizona Senator.
Fifty of the country’s most prominent lawyers joined today in a statement deploring Senator Barry Goldwater’s campaign attacks on the Supreme Court. The lawyers said “broadside attacks on the integrity and competence of the Supreme Court have become regular and prominent features” of the Senator’s speeches. They said his charges “overpass the limits of comment appropriate to a Presidential candidate.”
Southern Governors agreed generally today that President Johnson would carry an overwhelming majority of the region’s 17 states. The exceptions listed by them in news conferences and interviews preceding the opening tomorrow of the Southern Governors Conference were Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and, possibly, Oklahoma. However, Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. of Mississippi and Governor John J. McKeithen of Louisiana said they had noted increased support for the Democratic Presidential ticket even in their states. Although both men are Democrats, neither is backing the President.
Miss Lynda Bird Johnson, the elder daughter of President Johnson, placed a wreath at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln and campaigned for her father in Springfield, Illinois, today. The 20‐year‐old Miss Johnson urged about 4,500 persons at a rally in the armory to give “your hands, your hearts and your minds” in behalf of the Johnson campaign.
Five people were killed in an accident at the 1000 kilometres de Paris automobile race held at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry in Montlhéry. Peter Lindner of West Germany was driving at full speed on the rain-swept course as Franco Patria of Italy was pulling onto the track following a pit stop. On the 85th lap, Lindner slammed on his brakes and his Jaguar skidded into Patria’s Abarth Simca 2000, then continued through the air to where four of the French race officials were standing, striking three of them. Patria was killed instantly; Lindner and the three flag marshals — Jean Peyrard, Roger Millot and M. Desmoulins — died of their injuries after being taken to a hospital.
Ken Boyer’s grand slam in the 6th inning off Al Downing gives the St. Louis Cardinals a 4–3 win in game 4 of the 1964 World Series. Cardinal starting pitcher Ray Sadecki let the first four Yankees hit safely. After a leadoff double by Phil Linz, Bobby Richardson’s RBI double put the Yankees up 1–0. After a single, Mickey Mantle’s RBI single made it 2–0 and Sadecki was promptly removed by manager Keane. Roger Craig came in to pitch and gave up an RBI single to Elston Howard but allowed no more damage. After five innings, New York was still up 3–0 and St. Louis had only one hit off Downing. The Yankees are on the verge of being up 3–1 in the Series with the next game also at Yankee Stadium…
The turning point of the game — and the Series — came in the top of the sixth. Carl Warwick led off with his third pinch-hit base hit, tying a World Series record. Curt Flood singled to put runners on first and second. After Lou Brock flied out, Dick Groat reached base on a slow roller that was bobbled by Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson. Instead of runners on second and third with two out, the bases were loaded with one out. In the first game, Yankee Al Downing struck Cardinal Ken Boyer out with a high changeup. Downing faced Boyer again with the bases loaded, and Boyer guessed that he’d see the high changeup again. He guessed right, and hit a grand-slam. Ron Taylor relieved Craig and gave up one hit over the last four innings. St. Louis won the game 4–3; instead of trailing three games to one, Boyer’s grand slam enabled the Cardinals to even the Series at two games apiece and guaranteed a return to St. Louis.
NFL Football:
Detroit Lions 24, Minnesota Vikings 20
Los Angeles Rams 17, Chicago Bears 38
New York Giants 13, Dallas Cowboys 13
Philadelphia Eagles 20, Washington Redskins 35
San Francisco 49ers 14, Green Bay Packers 24
Earl Morrall guided Detroit to a 24–20 victory over the Minnesota Vikings today to give the Lions a temporary tie for the Western Conference lead of the National Football League with the Baltimore Colts. The Colts play the St. Louis Cardinals tomorrow night and could take over the lead with a triumph. Morrall set up a field goal and hit on a touchdown pass in the second half to erase a 17–14 Viking edge. Detroit’s defense then protected the margin with a furious rush on Fran Tarkenton in the final two minutes. A 42‐yard field goal by Fred Cox of the Vikings closed the scoring. A steady rain fell throughout the game and contributed to fumbles, which figured in all of Minnesota’s first‐half scoring and one Detroit touchdown.
Bill Wade hurled four touchdown passes, two each to Johnny Morris and Mike Ditka, as the Chicago Bears ended a two‐game losing streak and walloped the Los Angeles Rams, 38–17, today. The Bears, the National Football League’s defending champions, intercepted four passes by Bill Munson and turned three of them into scores in the first half for a 24–3 lead. The Bears intercepted five passes in all. Wade hit Morris on a 2‐yard yard scoring pass to end a 79‐yard drive in the first period and then hit Ditka for the same yardage after Roosevelt Taylor’s pass interception in the second quarter. Bob Jencks, who kicked 5 extra‐point conversions added a 14‐yard field goal that was set up by an interception. Ditka also scored by recovering Morris’s fumble of a catch that rolled into the end zone. The Bears increased their margin to 38–10 in the third period as Wade sent a 18‐yard scoring pass to Ditka and later hit Morris in the flat for a 52‐yard touchdown play.
Dick Van Raaphorst, a 22‐year‐old rookie kicker from Ohio State, put his head down and booted the ball. It was a 35‐yard field‐goal attempt on the last play of today’s game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. The kick into a brisk wind was wide, to the left of the Giants’ goal posts, and so the game ended in a 13–13 tie. Van Raaphorst deserved a better fate. So did the Cowboys. But not the Giants whose collective efforts once again were modest. The Giants’ attack, the strongest in the National Football League last year but the weakest this season, accomplished next to nothing in a long second half. The New York defensive platoon had to stay in action through 58 offensive plays by Dallas in the third and fourth quarters. The Giants’ offense had the ball for only 27 plays in the second half and gained merely 25 yards. Dallas, meanwhile, gained 350 yards — an astounding total — but the team could score only 10 points after the intermission. The Cowboys in the entire game had eight good scoring chances, four in the last period, but they made only two field goals (Van Raaphorst missed three other attempts) and one touchdown. Their total offensive yardage came to 473. Seldom has a team traveled so far and had so little to show on the scoreboard. The Giants gained merely 128 yards, but they did score two touchdowns and would have stolen the game if Don Chandler had not missed on pro football’s automatic play — the point-after-touchdown kick. Chandler’s boot inexplicably went wide of the goal posts following New York’s second touchdown in the second quarter.
Sonny Jurgesen bombed his old Philadelphia Eagles teammates with five touchdown passes today as the Washington Redskins posted a 35–20 victory to snap a four‐game losing streak. Jurgensen’s Redskin teammates did a good job of containing their former quarterback, Norman Snead, but they had a hard time with Tim Brown, a halfback who scored all three Philadelphia touchdowns. Jurgensen and Snead changed teams in a major National Football League deal after last season. Jurgensen connected on 22 of 33 passes for 385 yards. Two of his passes were intercepted. Bobby Mitchell caught 12 passes and made two touchdowns on aerials. On the most spectacular play of the game, Jurgensen tossed a 66‐yard scoring pass to Charlie Taylor, who took the ball near the line of scrimmage and dashed through most of the Eagle team. The Redskins’ defense limited Snead to 12 completions on 35 passes. One was a 14‐yard scoring pass to Brown.
The Green Bay Packers, led by Jim Taylor, scored two fourth‐period touchdowns today for a 24–14 National Football League victory over the San Francisco 49ers. A crowd of 47,380, largest to witness a pro football game in Wisconsin, saw Taylor take over leadership of the attack after Paul Hormung had been sidelined with a pinched shoulder nerve in the second period. Taylor gained 133 yards in 23 carries. Taylor, who had scored on a one‐yard plunge in the second quarter, sent the Packers in front with a 27‐yard touchdown run early in the last quarter. Then midway through the period the Packers lost the ball at the San Francisco 31 when Taylor fumbled. But John Brodie of the 49ers fumbled while trying to pass and Dave Manner recovered for the Packers at the 25. Taylor atoned for his fumble by carrying four straight times to the 8, where Bart Starr thew a touchdown pass to Boyd Dowler. Hornung missed field‐goal attempts from 16 and 35 yards before he was injured. He left the bench to kick a 21‐yard field goal in the third period and 2 extra points in the last period.
AFL Football:
Kansas City Chiefs 27, Denver Broncos 33
Buffalo Bills 48, Houston Oilers 17
Denver’s Broncos welcomed their new coach, Mac Speedie, today by besting the Kansas City Chiefs, 33–27, and ending a 14‐game streak without victory in the American Football League. Charlie Mitchell’s 58‐yard touchdown run, three pass interceptions by Goose Gonsoulin, Gene Mingo’s field‐goal kicking and smart signal‐calling by Jacky Lee, the quarterback, marked the home team’s triumph. After taking over front Jack Faulkner a week ago, Speedie said he was turning over control of the game to the players. They rewarded him with a display of crisp blocking and tackling and offensive power. Lionel Taylor’s sensational catch of Lee’s 34‐yard pass as he dived into the end zone sent Denver to a 33–13 lead midway in the third period.
Jack Kemp threw three touchdown passes tonight as the Buffalo Bills took a one‐game lead in the Eastern Division of the American Football League by defeating the Houston Oilers, 48–17. The Bills had not defeated Houston since 1961. They had lost five straight to the Oilers. The Buffalo defense limited the Oilers to a net gain of 70 yards. Kemp’s passes sealed the victory in the first 28 minutes as he threw touchdown passes of 9, 19 and 94 yards and set up the first Buffalo score with a 55‐yard pass to Elbert Dubenion. at the Houston 9.
Born:
Michael J. Nelson, American actor (Mystery Science Theater 3000), in St. Charles, Illinois.
Diane Gaidry, American film and theatre actress (‘Simone’ – “Loving Annabelle”, “The Dogwalker”), at the Ellsworth Air Force Base Visitor Center, Box Elder, South Dakota (d. 2019, from liver failure after a battle with cancer).
Kenny Green, NBA small forward (Washington Bullets, Philadelphia 76ers), in Eustis, Florida.
Monica Lamb-Powell [as Monica Lamb], WNBA center (WNBA Champions-Comets, 1998-2000; Houston Comets), in Houston, Texas.
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