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...bigger than the production goals in several lines. Chrysler's cars are still selling well, and even General Motors, whose 1957 Buick and Oldsmobile models have fallen behind, expects no real trouble preparing for major model changeovers. G.M. is leading in a huge $25 million autumn bonus cleanup campaign by the industry that will help Detroit enter November with a normal inventory of 200,000 cars. As for 1958, say the automen, the 7,000,000 customers who made 1955 a record year should now be ready for what most of them seem to want-lower, wider, sportier cars...
...last series the Milwaukee Braves would play in Brooklyn. Last year's pennant-winning Dodgers were lagging 6½ games behind, and the Braves were determined to plow them under. The plow was working. Big Henry Aaron, the Braves' heavy-wristed cleanup hitter, put the game away in the very first inning with a three-run homer to left. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst rapped another to right in the fifth. Rightfielder Bob Hazle, a remarkable rookie from Wichita, got three hits and boosted his four-week batting average back to an amazing .500. Meanwhile, Pitcher Lew Burdette...
Besides Repetto, the starting lineup may contain five other seniors playing their last home game for Harvard. The tentative batting order sees junior Tom Bergantino at third, junior Bob Cleary at second, captain John Simourian at first, and senior Bob Hastings batting cleanup and playing short...
...shielded space-was closed after a fashion, but no one seemed to realize that hotly radioactive dust was being carried by air currents over the top of its six-foot walls. Unseen, unfelt and unsuspected, it moved around the building, getting into clothes and shoes. An attempt at cleanup was made, but the spill was not reported...
...young man named Robert Walter Scott McLeod clattered through the marble corridors of the State Department like a broncobuster. A onetime (1942-49) FBI agent and former administrative assistant to New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, McLeod was brought in to direct the State Department's security "cleanup" program, and he quickly kicked up a dust that never quite settled. Last week the dust blew and the epithets flew anew as President Eisenhower nominated Scott McLeod to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland...