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...next five years, until last season, Kaline was unable to resist the seductions of long-ball hitting, a specialty to which he is not genuinely suited. His peak year as a slugger was 1956, when he had 123 runs-batted-in and 27 homeruns--a more respectable figure then than now. From then on, despite fine seasons in '58 and '59, he began to fall off his early pace until in 1960 he could manage only a .278 B.A. with 15 homers and 68 R.B.I...
Looming over Ankara's busy Ataturk Boulevard like an Anatolian mountain peak is the massive, honey-colored stone structure that houses Turkey's Parliament...
...since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored in Saturn's snout as ballast were 23,000 gal. of water weighing 95 tons. When the rocket neared the peak of its trajectory, seconds after its engines cut out, it was blown to bits on radio command. Some 65 miles above the Atlantic, the water released by the explosion spread into a giant, sun-splashed cloud of ice crystals. Below, on the earth's surface, a network of radars...
...ball games. It is the time when the boss has to step out from behind his cordon of secretaries and offer himself up at the annual stockholders' meeting as the main course in the year's first barbecue. Last week, with annual meetings at their peak, in one day alone the heads of 150 U.S. corporations were grilled by their stockholders...
Trading Range. Nevertheless, the consensus among the analysts is that the market will hit one more peak in 1962. But they warn that the market is in a "trading range,'' i.e., one where as many stocks go down as go up. and that to make money, a selective investor must watch for undervalued shares of companies with strong profit potentials. A minority of Wall Streeters even suggest that the next peak may mark the end of the Great Bull Market-which has persisted for 15 years despite temporary setbacks. Not even the pessimists, however, predict a selling panic...