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Said Guest: "I feel quite sick." >-Two weeks after New York's Al Oerter became the first man to fling a discus over 200 ft. (his mark: 200 ft. 5½ in.), Russia's Vladimir Trusenev smashed Oerter's record with a heave of 202 ft. 2¾ in. during a track meet in Leningrad. Sighed Oerter: "You just can't throw them far enough these days...
Coach Shepard has not yet chosen his starting pitcher, but it will be either Dick Garibaldi (5-1) or Del Rossi (9-1). Al Yarbro (4-1), Bill Humenek; and Dick Sargent will be ready in the bullpen. Del Rossi had a low ERA of 1.44, and a total of 60 strikeouts with only 26 walks in the 75 innings pitched...
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Funnymen Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl, Al Capp and Jules Feiffer join the Second City group from Chicago and the Uniquecorns from Washington in a program about satire in the U.S., with comments by Dr. Bergen Evans...
...classic way to gauge a stock's worth compared to its price is the price-earnings ratio, i.e., its market price in relation to profits per share of the company. In the late 1920s, Al Smith's good friend John J. Raskob, who then functioned simultaneously as an officer of Du Pont and General Motors, shocked the investment world by allowing that under favorable circumstances a stock might be worth as much as 15 times earnings. (Despite this bullish tenet, Raskob, like the President's father, Joseph Kennedy, saw the 1929 crash coming; unlike Kennedy...
...pillar of the Crimson's rugged defense will captain the varsity lacrosse team next season. Al Straus, a junior from Chicago, will be playing his third year of varsity lacrosse...