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...their qualifications punched onto cards and scanned by Operation Match's computer. Encouraged and figuring that what was good for New England was good for the world, the fledgling company set up shop in eight other college-heavy cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bloomington, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Detroit and New York). By the time all the full questionnaires are turned in for this fall's roundup, Operation Match expects to have more than 100,000 names on its lists...
...with the help of Vicki & CBS Operation Match did. The volume of returned questionnaires doubled in the last week before the deadline and Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg could begin to plan a big summer. They set up offices in New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburg, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bloomington, Detroit, and Boston...
This was rapid expansion, and as the summer rolled on it began to look like a mistake. Only about 70 people responded in Bloomington, and even the Boston area response was mediocre. Operation Match's manager here, who was solely on commission, spent a very unprofitable summer...
...hate at first sight. There was something about the set of their shoulders, the angle of their noses and the color of their Southern California tans that positively graveled the folks in Bloomington, Minn. Not to mention their mouths...
...Angeles Dodgers, champions of the National League, had barely arrived in Bloomington when they started bragging about what they were going to do to the American League's Minnesota Twins in the World Series. "Three or four clubs in our league could have won the pennant over there," said Dodger General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I don't think the competition from the Twins will be any tougher than it was from the Yankees when we beat them four straight in 1963." Now that was too much-even for Minnesota's mildmannered manager, Sam Mele. "Cracks like that...