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...lifetime average of .332, which ranks him with the giants of the recent past (Williams, .344; Joe DiMaggio, .325; Stan Musial, .331). His performance makes a mockery out of the records of such current celebrities as the New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson (.267) and the Cincinnati Reds' Joe Morgan (.282). Carew has won the American League batting championship five times, and four of those titles came in a row. Only Ty Cobb (nine) and Rogers Hornsby (six) won more consecutive batting crowns. Now 31 and in his eleventh season with the Twins (in a state where they name...
...champagne bottles that had been chilled in anticipation of a celebration remained corked. The gates that were about to swing open to thousands of new employees stayed closed. Many of the 40,000 executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots of them would eventually find work on other military projects did little to soften the blow. Said one official at Rockwell's sprawling Los Angeles plant: "This was the best-kept secret since...
Franz was planning on a career as a Presbyterian minister in 1913 when his brother sent him some tracts from the Watch Tower Society. He soon decided that the Watch Tower offered the one true interpretation of the Bible. The next year he dropped out of the University of Cincinnati without completing his junior year; he saw no sense in remaining because the movement's founder, Charles Taze Russell, had announced Oct. 1, 1914, as the date for Christ's Second Coming. Franz recalls with a wisp of a smile: "We expected the end of this system...
...hills are less precipitous- 45° to 50°- but it features a series of close-set hills that repeatedly , flash passengers from zero G to 2.75 Gs. Other great wooden coasters include the Great American Scream Machine near Atlanta and the Twin Racer at Kings Island, near Cincinnati. The Scream Machine whirls above the glassy surface of a lagoon, providing a view that is as much a part of the ride as the terrifying dips and turns. The Twin Racer-like the Rebel Yell near Richmond-has graceful dual tracks for competing cars...
...locals watch college students do or die for old John Brown University; to a seedy ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass., where a minor league team plays to empty stands; to a sun-hammered field in Puerto Rico where children try to emulate the feats of the late Roberto Clemente; to Cincinnati, where a country boy named Johnny Bench has parlayed his skills as a catcher into a million dollars worth of endorsements and franchise arrangements. The resulting collection of interviews and observations is an affectionate, and at times painfully accurate evocation of the game-and its recent erosions...