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...Mickey Mantle (54), Bill Skowron (28), Yogi Berra (22), Elston Howard (21), and John Blanchard (21). But you must remember that all these inflated marks were made in a 162* game* season.* Howard also had the highest batting average on either World Series team--.348 (which is equivalent to approx. .327 for a 154 game season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cincinnati Will Surprise Yankees in World Series | 10/5/1961 | See Source »

Although junior faculty members with young children would share the approx- imate one-fifth of the benefits devoted to family medical and insurance proposals, they would still have many more financial problems than older men in the senior faculty, critics stated...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Older Faculty Extra Benefits Seen Unequal | 3/21/1956 | See Source »

Congress Party leaders dutifully took these proposals home, blandly proposed the merging of Bengal and Bihar (total pop. 65 million), the merging of Bombay state with huge slices of Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad (approx. pop. 43 million), the merging of Madras with Mysore and Travancore-Cochin (approx. pop. 55 million). Gasped the opposition parties: a plot to hold power through creating a group of superstates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Above the Riot | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINESE POETRY SAMPLER: TOWN LIFE | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...farms. The government wants to guarantee the peasant's crop and his property. The list of kulaks has to be abolished. The movement into cooperatives has to be slowed down. Those members who desire to become individual farmers again can do so ... Fines amounting to 600 million forints [approx. $50 million] were imposed on peasants [for delivery failure]. This we cancel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: On Good Behavior | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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