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...Milwaukee Brewers (when they were a minor league team), the St. Louis Browns, and the hearts of fans. When it comes to promotion-and rocking boats-he is baseball's alltime MVP. American League owners tried hard to keep Veeck locked out of baseball last December by imposing stiff conditions on his offer to purchase the all but bankrupt White Sox for $10 million...
Paxton, who did not make the trip to Princeton for the Ivy tourney, strung his second under-80 round this week. He rapped in a 20-foot birdie putt on five and hit a wedge stiff on 11 for a birdie three...
Both squads will face stiff competition this weekend. Radcliffe will travel to Wellesley for league competition against a strong fleet, including last year's national champion, Princeton...
...BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers. More houses than ever are up for sale, but there are few takers. Last year nearly 10,000 whites left Rhodesia for good. The country's white population was maintained by Portuguese immigrants from Angola and Mozambique, but today more than half the whites...
...walkout began early April 1, after the Teamsters' old contract expired. Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, who dearly wants to be re-elected in June, had been pushed by the rank-and-file to hold out for stiff terms. Under the last contract, the Teamsters received a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) that was "capped" at a maximum of 11? per hour in any year. That limitation, the union reckoned, cost its members a total of 53? in their hourly wages, which averaged $7.18 to $7.33 when the contract ran out. Hence among the union's final demands...