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terback. I think he's going to play a long time. (Colts offensive coordinator) Bruce (Arians) is, I'm sure, a happy man."
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Scott McKenzie, who sang 1967 counterculture anthem 'San Francisco,' dies in Calif.

• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Singer Scott McKenzie, who performed "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" -- which became a hit in 1967 during the city's "Summer of Love" -- has died.
• A statement on McKenzie's website says the 73-year-old died on Saturday in Los Angeles. McKenzie battled Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease that affects the nervous system, and had been in and out of the hospital since 2010.
• "San Francisco" was written by John Phillips, the leader of the 1960s group The Mamas and the Papas. But McKenzie sang it and it has stood as an anthem for the 1960s counterculture movement.
• McKenzie also co-wrote "Kokomo," a No. 1 hit for The Beach Boys in 1988, and toured with The Mamas and the Papas in the 1990s.

Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Monday, Aug. 20, the 233rd day of 2012. There are 133 days left in the

year.

• Today's Highlights in History:
• On Aug. 20, 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley to President Abraham Lincoln titled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions"; in it, Greeley called on Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free the slaves and end the South's rebellion.

• On this date:
• In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
• In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped.
• In 1882, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" had its premiere in Moscow.
• In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and

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