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Billing himself as "someone your children can look up to," Glenn from the start mined his reputation for honesty and integrity. Although he vowed to wage "the cleanest campaign I know how," Glenn all but ignored the issues to hit hard-and low-at Metzenbaum as a tax dodger after both candidates released details of their recent tax returns. The charge rested on the facts that Metzenbaum (whose net worth is $3.6 million) legitimately paid no federal taxes in 1969 because of high interest payments and losses in various investments and is involved in a tax-court dispute over...
Self-Sufficient. Coors has been owned by a single family since 1873, when Adolph Coors, a German draft dodger, set up a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek. His grandson, William, has been president since 1970, and the firm contains six other Coorses. As befits a company owned by rugged individualists, the firm is almost totally self-sufficient. Plant expansion is handled by Coors' full-time 1,000-man construction crew. The firm meets its energy requirements by picking combustible material out of its waste products and burning it, and by tapping its own natural gas fields. Coors...
...Babes of Summer represent the third phase of Alston's career with the Dodgers. Phase I began in Brooklyn when he inherited from Charlie Dressen a club of sluggers led by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Duke Snider. Back then, explains Alston, "it was simply a matter of playing it close to the vest until one of your big guns broke up the game with a home run." Phase II came after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and had to rely on speed and pitching to make up for their gradual loss of gun power...
...baseball, he says that "as long as I feel well, I can't think of anything I'd rather do." On the threshold of what may well be another Dodger dynasty, Alston has all the job security he needs-despite the fact that for the past 20 seasons he has signed only one-year contracts. Now earning a reported $70,000 a year, he says that he shares the feeling of Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley. "As Walter said the day I got the first assignment in Brooklyn," says Alston, "signing one-year contracts can mean...
...recent weeks, Aaron has received more than 20,000 letters of support, and his very appearance at the plate is enough to bring a standing ovation from the fans of opposing teams. "If you fall behind 2 and 0 or 3 and 0 with Aaron," complains Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Claude Osteen, "you begin hearing the boos from your own fans. They think you're trying to walk him when they've come to see him hit a home run." In Detroit there is a popular new recording, Move Over, Babe: "Move over, Babe, here comes Henry...