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...three straight years, the big silver punch bowl belonged to Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor. Perhaps the best all-round shotmaker Australia has ever produced. Sedgman still plays part-time pro tennis, owns a gymnasium and squash courts in Melbourne. McGregor now runs an Adelaide sporting goods store...
...Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, kept on winning ball games. Spahn's fast ball had lost its zip, and his legs were rubbery from 22 years on the mound, but he parlayed a new slider and an old pro's cunning into the best all-round record of any major-league pitcher. Spahn led the National League in complete games (21), earned-run average (3.01) and consecutive, victories (10), tied Cincinnati's Joey Jay for most games won (21). He also pitched a no-hitter-his second in two years. By season's end, Spahn...
...military talks to meet the alleged threat of West German "aggression." As Tass reported the Siberian table talk, Khrushchev told the Finnish leader that, "before it is too late," the frontier of Finland and the Soviet Union must be fortified against the NATO partners West Germany, Denmark and Norway. "All-round cooperation between our two countries." continued Khrushchev, "requires firm confidence that Finland will abide tomorrow, as it does today, by its chosen foreign policy line"-strict neutrality based on friendship with Russia...
Aspiring salesmen buy The Magic Word; teen-age girls are particularly fond of The Sound of Beauty, which comes with a make-up kit. But for the all-round illiterate the new vistas are unlimited: Improve Your Etiquette; Plan the Perfect Dinner Party; Achieve Sexual Harmony in Marriage; Skin Dive; Tell Your Children the Facts of Life...
...foresightedly left their "germ cells" deep-frozen in an underground bank. Future parents may be able to leaf through a germ-cell catalogue and pick the father of their next child on the basis of "personifications of their own ideals-the generally admired primary virtues of high character, keen all-round intelligence, and sound physique," and such traits as "a joyful disposition, musical proclivities, aptness at repartee, rapid calculation, courage or endurance...