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Outfielders Bob Smith and Russ Johnson shared batting honors, each collecting three hits. The Crimson batted around in the big seventh inning, scoring seven runs on six singles, two walks, two errors, and a balk...
Hill Called Lucre. By year's end, there were signs that some of the chief beneficiaries of Government spending were beginning to balk at the increasing cost of welfare. Prime example was the farmer. With the guaranteed market of the support program, farmers had raised the second greatest crop in history. Although there were surpluses everywhere, net farm income of $15 billion was down only 15%, thanks to the fact that the Government was spending at a rate of about $2 billion a year to support crops and keep them off the market. With more than $3 billion tied...
Students who balk face fearful penalties including automatic $10 fines...
...railroads, which are still making money on freight, know how to make money on passengers too, and have proved it on their main-line trains. They know that it is the uneconomical branch lines which eat up the profits. Yet state regulatory bodies, often for sentimental reasons, balk at letting them be closed down. (When the Chesapeake & Ohio sought to eliminate one, oldtimers who had not ridden it since World War I protested that they would miss the whistle...
...feckless planning and design. New York City is not alone. Throughout the U.S., school boards are putting up the wrong kind of schools. They spend thousands of extra dollars on belfries, balconies, Grecian columns, fake chimneys, and dummy dormers. They balk at the idea of the unpretentious one-story schoolhouse to which rooms can be added as needed...