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...trouble with general managers I is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything." The angry man is the University of Texas' Baseball Coach Bibb Falk, onetime Chicago White Sox outfielder; the objects of his rage are the major leagues, particularly the fast-talking scouts who circle the campuses and lure away the best college baseball players with sweet talk and bonuses. It not only hurts college baseball, argue Bibb and other college coaches, but also hurts the young men who are wooed away. For their reasons, see SPORT, Blame It on the Majors...
...lose most of his team to his mortal enemies. "They say one thing and do something else," he foamed. "They're all for themselves and don't give a damn about minors or colleges. The trouble with general managers is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything. They need another Judge Landis in baseball to clean up the mess...
...William Palmer of Rugeley died a sportsman and a poisoner to his fingertips. On June 14, 1856, a crowd of 30,000 jostled and bargained for a good view of the scaffold outside Stafford Gaol, miners caroused in the taverns, and when Palmer died without a struggle, they cried, "Cheat! Twister!", for they had come to see him kick at the end of the rope. Britain's Robert Graves, poet, novelist, fabulist and all-round man of letters, has now issued a lively post-post-mortem report on the whole affair...
...prate, but in this one he spends rather more than an hour in mounting the pulpit and clearing his throat. When at last he thunders forth his text, the congregation is ready to hear the wisdom of the ages. Instead, the message runs something like this: "Don't cheat on your wife. Because if you do, you'll never finish night school. And if you don't finish night school, brother, you'll spend the rest of your life as a crumby little bookkeeper...
...pressure off now when EOKA is on the run? Once EOKA is crushed, the Cypriots will be easy to deal with. As governor of Cyprus, he was flatly opposed to negotiating with the archbishop under any circumstances; in private conversations he has reportedly referred to Makarios as a cheat, liar and fraud. After two hours of argument, the two men hurried over to 10 Downing Street where Prime Minister Macmillan, just hours before his departure for Bermuda, had hastily assembled a few top ministers. Without stopping for lunch, the conferees battled on until midafternoon, were finally forced to defer...