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With an experienced smirk, Portfolio expressed his educated delight. "Samuel Tech played a beautifully judged game. we was murdered, and we deserved it. By the way, did you see how Billy Oval-tine destroyed our sneak forward-to-half bumper with those circular drops? Masterful!" (Ovaltine is the Sambo's all-East ace borderback...
...Secretary Freeman to tone down his bill. At week's end Freeman was ready to make some compromises, but gave no indication that he was willing to scrap Title One. There was little time to lose. As Freeman fretted, his Agriculture Department announced that this year's bumper crop of wheat would add about another 125 million bu. to the stockpile that already totals 1,450,000,000 bu. Every day the U.S. spends $1,400,000 just to store a mountain of surplus food that now is worth $9.4 billion...
Alarmed by aluminum's steady encroachments into Detroit-the average 1961 auto has 62.8 lbs. of aluminum v. 56.1 lbs. in the 1960 model-steelmen were provoked to open hostilities by the aluminum industry's prediction that its favorite metal is about to be used in bumpers, wheels, more auto engines and other auto parts. Indelibly etched in the memory of every steel producer is a 1959 Reynolds Metals- Co. radio commercial in which two loathsome characters named Rusty and Salty set out to feast on steel auto accessories but were frustrated by "rust-free aluminum...
...Steel Bumper: Oh, oh. Got yourself another dent. Look, why don't you give people a break? Let Great Lakes Steel take care of the bumpers, and you go back to your pots and pans...
...Baltimore, thousands of bumper stickers proclaimed "It can be done in '61" in six languages including Russian, but the Orioles lost to the Los Angeles Angels, 7-2, when White Sox Castoff Ted Kluszewski, who hit only five home runs all last season, walloped a pair in the opening game...