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Although the Cardinals give the impression of being a fourth-place team, they do have an upward mobility that neither the Expos nor the Pirates can claim. Although their infield features two names that will be on everybody's trivia quiz--third baseman Kenny Reitz and shortstop Mike Tyson--they are blessed with a few fine Boston refugees, most notably outfielders Reggie Smith and pitchers John Curtis, Lynn McGlothen, Ken Tatum, and Mike Garman. These additions give the Cards a solid outfield (Lou Brock in left, Luiz Melendez in center, and Smith in right) and an equally strong mound corps...
...saying the same to them. Many white farmers have been killed. And those who aren't have much difficulty sleeping at night. We tell the servants to work during the day and kill them at night. The regime claims 200 deaths, but our reports show casualties upward of 1000: They're so desperate they've had to move Africans into camps to protect the farmers...
...bottom 340 ft. below. Already the drill is bringing up samples from 2,000 ft. below the shelf. The samples are carefully analyzed for hints of oil, but the drill may have to bite as deep as 17,000 ft. to find a real gusher. The rig itself costs upward of $20 million to build and more than $45,000 a day to operate...
...life was not a model of underworld career management, it was a commercial moviemaker's dream. To begin with, his passion for upward mobility inevitably brings up the tragic gangster heroes of cinema history -those overreaching Little Caesars whose dreams of success were so satisfyingly animated by the likes of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney...
...Faculty announced last Monday that the price of a Harvard-Radcliffe education will climb to $5350, an increase of more than 6 per cent from the 1973-74 rates, and all indications are that this upward trend will continue for some time...