In 1985, a pair of milestones were achieved in major league baseball as Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox gained his 300th victory and Rod Carew of the California Angels got his 3, 000th hit.

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ElAttrache and Dr. John Itamura will operate Saturday at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles to place a rod in the clavicle to stabilize and align the fracture.

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In addition to Lilies of the Field, I suppose the, really the role for which he's often still best known is Virgil Tibbs, the Philadelphia cop who comes down to Mississippi, where the local white police chief, Chief Gillespie is played by Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night.

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He had also caught, off Long Island, some of the largest sharks ever landed: a 4, 500lb (2, 000kg) great white harpooned in 1964, and a 3, 400lb one, big as a Volkswagen, caught with rod and reel in 1986.

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