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...rigors of spring training are still more than a month off, but baseball's geriatric wonder, St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Stan Musial, 42, was already embarking on his own workout program by running a brisk mile twice a week. Then "The Man," who hit a blistering .330 last season (his 22-year average: .333), dropped by the Cardinal offices to make all the exercise worthwhile. He signed a contract for an estimated $65,000. "I never felt better," said Stan, "and that's hard to say when you're getting older...
...Somebody will have to beat the idea into the woolly heads of the House subcommittee that most of the waste in economic aid comes from treating the program as an arm of highly limited notions of national security. It is not selfless humanitarianism, but a myopic desire to be brisk, that sends dollars to chase a crisis in Indonesia even when there is no reason to suppose that the Indonesians will use them properly. And yet it is only crisis assistance that Administration and Congress can always agree to accept. The money expended is inevitably misused, and A.I.D. inevitably discredited...
...daily visits to Der Spiegel's office, but, to make sure that he did not try to escape or to destroy evidence, police escorted him everywhere, even to the men's room. Even so, he was free to write flaming anti-Adenauer editorials for Der Spiegel, the brisk, irreverent, and often sensational newsmagazine he founded in 1947. Moved last month to a more confining prison at Coblenz, Augstein is now undergoing daylong interrogations. But he still wears his own expensive suits instead of the usual prison uniform, orders his food from nearby restaurants, reads all the books...
...time cars began to trickle through to dealers, many a would-be Lark buyer had switched to something else. Much the same fate befell the Wagonaire station wagon, which has a rear roof that slides open. Scarcely had the Wagonaire been introduced and consumer demand for it proven brisk when Studebaker discovered that the sliding roof leaked. Not until mid-November was the problem overcome well enough to allow volume production...
...Moby Dick. A tall ladder serves for a mast, benches for longboats, and furled and swaying sails complete the Nantucket whaler Pequod. Pages of the novel are cut to stage cues, and the second and final act cuts to the mortal sea chase, which Director Douglas Campbell handles with brisk and believable intensity...