NEW YORK October 16, l969 Dallas Towns end Good e en;n, e erybody. The winners and new champions - as yott must ha e heard by now - New York's Amazin' Mets; wrappi,ig up the World Se1'ies - with a come- from-behind Ji e-to-tlzree victory at Shea Stadium. Thus becoming the first of baseball's expansion . teams - ever to win a Series crown. Completing their trip from the ridiculous to th . e sublime - with a jump from ninth pla . ce to fi · rst in the space of a single season. In the process. also becoming Hae third New York team to beat a Baltimore club - in three professional sports playoffs over the past year. The Mets today - tracing three-to-nothing in the third inning ... but they never gave up. Ho,,,ers by Donn Clendennon and Al Weis - finally tying it up in the seventh. Setti'lf.g the stage for an eighth inning, game-winning rally - I inchding a pair of doubles, by Cleon Jo,ies and Ron Swoboda. T It e la tt e r adding •••fai ins u lt to in j II r y two I> lays I a t e r - romping home with an insurance run while a bewildered Oriole NEW YORK - 2 just stood lhere holding tile ball. As for the ninth inning - strictly routine; except for the Met fans - cllantin o er and o er: "We're Number One. We 're N1tmber One." The final out setting off a city-wide frenz_v of celebration - as Casey Stengel would say; "Amazin', simply amazi11'." Bu.t there was no joy in Baltimore. PARIS-SA IGOR \I\-\ On the peace f ront -,\Paris - it was the "Morning after" 7 P J; the morning after that Vietnam Moratorium observance -/bringing with it something or a surprise./ '!'he Co•unist side urging secret talks between the U.S. and the Viet Cong/ a parley excluding the present SO11th ne~•se government. /'ftowever, 'ftenry Cabot Lodge rejecting the ldN out : or-hand -/ob~rving, as he has before,/that • ~ f u l talks must include "all the representatives" or both sides. Hilf a world aw-, - in Saigon - another casualty report. /Por the third straight week f u.s. battle dNtha dropping below the hundred-mark /eighty-two, to be exact. U.S. intelligence further estimating present enem, troop - stre ng th / at Gum two hundred and forty-thousand men; lowe s t figure - in nearly two years. MIDDLI IAST In the Middle East - a eecond straight day o f Israeli air strikes •a• ~ - against the central sector of the Smz Canal. foe attackers hittlng IIYJ>tian artillery poll&ions - which had earlier shelled the Israelis throughout the night. ,.. M&a:ahlil.e /..t Beirut - Lebanise authori t1ea appealed -,, ... , to Interpol {the International Polle• Agency; ~ttnptl1:IC to get a line on that man who yesterday launched a rocket attack t aga111st the headqu&n• or 1lhe ■illtant Paleatllne Liberation Organization./At the same time - in Cairo - • ~ ,,-- Arab guerilla group - .._ Al Patah - accusing the u.,. ot •sterminding the attack. (SUGO~T!D ~AD-II TO THOMAS TAP! SLUGGED "IIOIIO lCOlll") llext up - Lowell Thomas; with another special report tonight / this time from llong I!:~. Lowell ... HONG KONG (6) Hello E v ery bod y: You llave all heard of tlle Clteongsam lla v e,r 't you? Tlie traditional dress worn by Cllh1ese wome,a liere in tlie Far East. American sailors, soldiers, airme,r, travellers, wlio come tlris •ay for rest a,rd relaxation, all of MS, we've al•ays bee,a cl,eo,eg..,. e,rtlausiasts, tl,e slit skirt. In some parts of tire Far Bast a,rd Soulli East Asia it's wor,s wills a slit all tie• 111ay up to tl,e laip. IVl,iclr obviously ca,r be a bit excli,.g to males wlro are ,tot. B•t, for tlae first time 11,ave,.•t see,. • •1•61• claeortg•a• 1,ere ,,. Bo,eg Ko,ag. Ma,.y gills o• t It ere •ear ,,. lcro-"' l•i -• ltirts, t.,o ti irds of tlae ••Y • •I' ftfMt tire lt,eee to tire waist. So as o,se Clthaese gentlema,a refflarlred to me a •ome11t ago - "as lo11g as tliis is tl,e fasl,io11 wlay slaould a,.y giYl botlteY about a slit sltirt?" Wl,e 11 I first caffle to Bo11g Ko,.g ma11y decades ago, altlroa,gh even tlten a fab•lous city it lrad a pofu1latio1t of less tlran four l,u,adred tliousa,.d. Today it lias jumped to over four million. BONG KONG - 2 Tire question tra ellers always ask of tire locals ts "when, when will the Chinese Reds take over •ong Ko,ag? To .,1,;clr a •lse old Clrina hand is likely to reply "maybe Jtever." Because Hong Kong and nearby Portuguese Macau, tlaey are co,alrolled by tire British a,td tire Porl11g11ese wlro allo• tire c• i,ees e Reds to trade w itlr tit e western world i,e a ma,u1er t••t enables tlaem to get tlteir ltands o,a a slot of foreig,a • c•rrency llaal tlaey ,aeed. Prices are J11mph1g in Ho,ag Ko,ag. Tl,e best yo• ca,a do ,-./ todoy I• 11et o ••ii of clot•e• for o• •otf of ••at/11 •o•ld coal ~ yo•,,. tAe Stales - tlaal ts if yo11're luclty. A,ad aol•g 11,eUl lo•orro•. (SUOGISTED POLL~ TO THOMAS TAP! SLUGGED "HOIIJ lCOT«i") 4/ • / I r - S!OOKJIOIII WiMe ~ /or this year's lobel Prize f or llledic1ne - for the second year in a row - a trio of American scientists. The 11811 group including Dr. Max Delb~ptlk o Cal Tech/ Dr. ~Mt~ i«_ - Alfred fter s hey of the Carnegie 11111,1,a,lon - and Dr. Salvador Luria o M.I.!. A citation f rom the Royal Caroline Institute of stockhol■ /hatUng "their d1scower1es concerning the replication •chants■ and the genetic structure of viruses." J..w ~ ~ l'or which they will ales get a cash prize - aaountlng to Seventy~Pive 'l'housand.{Q~ 1 PRESIDENT Tomorrow afternoon, the President lfl will address tlte ,ration on tlte subject of tlte rising cost of living. Tlte address 111 ill be carried live on most of these CBS Radio statio111 at lb•r P. M. Eastern time. Prom Davte, Florida - the s t o r y ~ of a wayward bus - a school bus, at that. The driver - a last-minute substitute - Jllrs. Joyce Battle; who made the mistake or asking her young passengers - innocently: "low do we get to the school f'roa here?" Whereupon the kids led her on a wlld goose chase - tlll torty ■ilea later - the e■battled Jllrs. Battle finally realised ahe 1 4 been hid. And just then - the bus broke down. Well, to •Ice a long story short - the klds arrived at school tn tl• tor thelr tavorlte subJect: Lunch. And lllrs. Battle waa heard to reurk: "I'll never drlve a school bus agaln."