Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relax and Enjoy. Studious and methodical, Rollins set out to learn the pro game by the numbers, jotting down everything-tips from players and coaches, comments on opposing pitchers, acid reminders of his weaknesses. Fellow players considered him something of a grind; he smoked a pipe, drank only beer, rarely went to the movies, read history books. But in his first year, he batted .341 in the minors, and last year he clipped off .294 in 13 games, after being called up to the parent club...
...surprisingly, it came between Independent H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History and Republicans George Cabot Lodge and Lawrence Curtis on the issue of arms control and the Cold War, one of the six topics set for discussion by moderator Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government...
...train their own people in such trades as carpentry, plumbing, home economics, nursing. In the village of Rio Negro in southern Chile, Janet Boegli, 22, from Austin, Texas, shares a small house with two Chilean girls, teaches women how to use a sewing machine, knit, mix powdered milk, clean beer bottles to use for babies' formulas. Chilean volunteers have organized communities of 20-30 houses, called centros. They raise money to buy sewing machines and other needed equipment by organizing fiestas and raffles. "What's important," writes Volunteer Boegli, "is that we have shown that gringos...
...like racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened to the deck. Unnecessary bulkheads, deck rails, and the masthead wind indicator (weight: about 2 lbs.) were gone. Even a beer cooler and a wooden pipe rack were sacrificed for speed...
Aggie keeps her staff lively by occasionally firing blanks from a desk-drawer pistol, keeps the boys happy by throwing city-desk beer parties, keeps them loyal by sticking up for them. Her style has brought happy results; the Herald-Examiner is thriving, and the paper is among the Hearst chain's few solid moneymakers...