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...sips milk after a game, claims he never touches the hard stuff, and keeps his hairy hands off the Pirates. Murtaugh realizes full well that overmanaging would cramp the egos-and crimp the play-of the bunch of oddly assorted personalities he has nursed to maturity as ballplayers: Pitcher Vernon Law (19-8), a pious Mormon elder; Third Baseman Don Hoak (.277), a sulphur-mouthed ex-Marine and ex-middleweight boxer; Shortstop Dick Groat, the intense, introspective team captain (now sidelined by a broken left wrist); and Right Fielder Roberto Clemente (.320), a showboating Puerto Rican. "They...
...today's kids. So, in a professional sense, do many scientists, who recognize the firefly's light as a love call-but are both baffled and fascinated by its heatless, chemically generated properties. As of last week a chemical company, Schwartz Bio-Research Inc. of Mount Vernon,N.Y.,had found a happy way of 1) letting children turn their firefly chasing to profit, 2) putting firefly tails to practical human use, and 3) offering hope that science may soon solve the longstanding puzzle of the little white-fire insect...
...Schwartz company gets its fireflies from the southern states of the U.S., where they are collected by youngsters and shipped to Mount Vernon on dry ice. In charge of the 1960 firefly hunt was Marc Cohn, now 19, the son of an atomic scientist at Oak Ridge, Tenn. During the 1960 season he and his teams collected more than 1,000,000 flashing firefly tails...
...that remains of the Trimountain is Beacon Hill, which is now a curious mixture of artists' colonies and famous houses with distinguished residents. Another peak of the Trimountain, Mount Vernon, disappeared; it used to be just above Louisburg Square (where the carollers go on Christmas Eve) and, according to Walter Muir Whitehill, appeared on most maps "quite unequivocally. . . as Mount Whoredom." To compensate for its disappearance, Scollay Square, also just beyond aristocratic Louisburg, has acquired a new sort of outdoor night life...
...else lives just the way he does." Suburbanite-Author Robert Paul ("Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing.") Smith (New York City's Scarsdale), complains that Scarsdale is "just like a Deanna Durbin movie: all clean and unreal. Hell, I went to school in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with the furnace man's son-you don't get that here...