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...though, it was not the Yankees or Frick or financial problems that drove Bill Veeck out of baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...
When one of the 6,500 transistors or 45,500 diodes in the machine's control unit fails, a duplicate component takes over instantly. A few thousandths of a second later, the machine has diagnosed its own ailment and an electric typewriter starts clacking out a coded description. A maintenance man-one humble surviving human in a world of strong-minded machines-looks up the code in a 1,290-page dictionary written by a computer. There the maintenance man finds instructions telling him which part needs to be replaced. He need not ask what the part does...
...feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis...
Died. Northam Warren Sr., 83, pioneer U.S. cosmetics manufacturer, a Baptist preacher's son who first introduced liquid nail polish to the U.S. in 1916; of a heart ailment; in Stamford, Conn...
...press, that they or their children may yet suffer unforeseen ill effects from radiation exposure. As a constant reminder. 112,000 survivors who were within 1.86 miles of the center of the blasts in both cities carry green health cards assuring them of free medical attention for any ailment whatever. Nonetheless, after 15 years of meticulously sifting case histories, a 1,000-man, U.S.Japanese casualty commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has found no evidence that either city has a higher rate of deformed births, leukemia or other radiation-linked diseases than any other community in Japan...