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...Bill Hartack, 24, the nation's winningest jockey for the past three years in a row, booted home the 2,000th winner of his career aboard Herald Wind at Atlantic City, N.J. Three days later he was set down 15 days for rough riding and throwing a punch at Fellow Jockey Jimmy Johnson, his second suspension in less than a month...
Joining the Golf Society of Great Britain as its 1,000th member, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (handicap: 18), received a sturdy, useful gift: a wedge, "not for getting you into holes, but out of trouble." Posing like a duffer (head up, grip too far down on the shaft) with his new club, Lloyd mused about some off-course problems: "I am not a good golfer. But I am wondering whether this club is appropriate for a game of Summitry. I do, I know, spend quite a lot of time in the rough. I have a bad stance. I often have...
...seasons ago, at the tag end of one of those strength-sapping St. Louis summers, Stan toyed with the restful notion of quitting after he rapped out his 3,000th. Now he knows better. Stepping up to the plate and swinging free-not for fence-busting homers, but for those record-breaking base hits-is a steady satisfaction for the part-time banker and restaurateur who no longer needs the $100,000 salary that makes him the highest paid player in National League history. "Getting tired," says Stan, "is like a man getting hold of all the money he wants...
Volkswagen also turned in a happy annual report. Sales in 1957 are expected to top two billion marks (more than $476 million) for the first time. This week, as Managing Director Heinz Nordhoff celebrates his tenth anniversary on the job, Volkswagen will roll out its 2,000,000th car. Other West German automakers are also picking up speed. Production in 1957 hit 1,210,000 cars, and almost half-585,000-were exported...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...