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...Yankees. "There's only one way to get ahead in this organization," Houk admitted, "and that's to win. It doesn't much matter what else you do, or how people feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...
This testimonial to the absurdity of TV ratings was given at a special FCC hearing in Manhattan. The commission was collecting the views of "a number of persons who are actively engaged in the creation, production, writing, casting, sale and licensing of programs." Their recommendations were not revolutionary-tighten licensing requirements, weed out the Madison Avenue orchids-but the testimony was considerably more entertaining than most TV fare...
Item by item, Rusk set forth the Kennedy foreign aid program. It would: ¶ Tighten administration by compacting various economic-aid agencies into a single bureau under the State Department...
...hand on Wall Street? Many Wall Streeters fear that in some areas it has. The stock exchanges, acutely aware of the rising fever in the big bull market, are doing what they can to tamp it. The New York Stock Exchange announced last week that it will tighten up its requirements for getting a stock listed. The American Stock Exchange, for the first time in its history, put a ban on stop orders-automatic orders to sell a stock once it reaches a specified price during a decline-on all round-lot transactions...
...effort to tighten up the Crimson defense, Shepard used Phil Bernstein in place of Jim Mullen at first base and Corky Cronin for Billy Rodgers at third in the Princeton game. Bernstein got two hits and should continue to play, but Curly Combs, or even outfielder Mike Drummey might be moved...