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...twelve-story office buildings, a luxury motel and a vast apartment community on the land it owns adjacent to Northland. Still another Hudson's shopping center-Westland-is in the works, and there are signs that under its young, new boss, Hudson's may move even farther afield. Fortnight ago, J. L. Jr. announced plans to open a budget store outside Pontiac, 30 miles from Detroit. If the customers come, Hudson stores may ultimately spring up all over Michigan...
...batting average was a sparkling .280, and four regulars were hitting over .300. The pitching staff had a respectable earned-run average of 3.37. Against the Orioles, Manager Bob Scheffing needed no more than eleven men a game; the Tigers collected 42 hits and 29 runs in 27 innings. Afield, they made only one error to the Orioles' four...
...Stops. Long before the press corps actually got in to the courtroom to cover the trial, the Eichmann case was heralded, exploited, rehashed and explored with exhaustive thoroughness. In the U.S., papers that did not serialize Eichmann's life or revisit the Third Reich ranged far afield to fill space. Some went hunting for concentration camp survivors; the Denver Post interviewed 25-year-old Robert Kaye, who served when he was seven as Eichmann's orderly in a camp near Mannheim. Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them...
Other Big Eight coaches roam farther afield for material. Every winter Missouri's Coach Dan Devine kisses goodbye his wife, six daughters and a son and spends 90% of his time barnstorming around the Midwest. Iowa State has lured no fewer than 23 players out of the fertile football towns of Ohio, traditionally the Big Ten's nursery. In its recruiting competition with the Big Eight, the Big Ten operates under one severe handicap: its prospects must go through the indignity of proving financial need before they can get a full scholarship...
...word from Hyannisport is that John F. Kennedy would reach far afield for Cabinet choices, and any attempt to predict his Cabinet is futile. This did not stop these guesses...