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UMass is led by freshman sensation Charlie Manley, who is maintaining a 411 batting average. Manley turned down a lucrative offer from the Milwaukee Brewers when the ECAC ruled that freshmen could participate in baseball in the Yankee Conference...
Besides being the team's leading hitter. Manley has burnt up the base-paths, stealing 22 bases in 23 attempts this year. The threat represented by his speed is reflected in the fact that Jack Conroy, the Redmen number-two hitter, has been walked 22 times by opposing pitchers who had their eye more on Manley at first than on Conroy at the plate...
Died. Norman Washington Manley, 76, former Prime Minister of Jamaica; of a heart attack; in Kingston. As founder of the People's National Party in 1938, then as the island's top executive from 1955 to 1962, Oxford-educated Manley played a primary role in Jamaica's rise from a stagnant British Crown colony to political independence and economic wellbeing. He was among the first and foremost organizers of a campaign to attract both tourists and industry to bolster the island's historic one-crop sugar trade. The program was so successful that today Jamaica...
Cutting the Heart. Port authorities are even more concerned that the dispute will cause a permanent loss of seaway traffic. "The strike has cut the heart out of the seaway season," says Captain John J. Manley, Chicago port director, who estimates that 750,000 tons of cargo will be diverted to East Coast ports by this week. Such losses could saddle U.S. and Canadian taxpayers with extra burdens. Seaway traffic has lagged so far behind expectations that the $460 million U.S.-Canadian project is still losing money. The seaway has failed to generate enough revenue to retire its bonds...
...family roller skating on Sunday afternoons (plastic skate wheels protect gymnasium floors). There are classes in bowling, bridge, badminton and ballroom dancing. The Mott approach is to use recreation as a lure to coax people into continued learning. "You bring people in for a little knitting class," explains Frank Manley, executive director of Mott Foundation projects. "Then you get a little serious sewing-then you build on that, and first thing you know you've got a terrific home economics course going." All the newer schools have a built-in "community room" open to meetings of clubs and civic...