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Challenge Is the Thing. What do the recruiters offer that captures so many executives? Not salary, most executives agree-though the promise of fat stock options in the new job often helps. The real clincher, however, is most often the prospect of greater challenge. "I was delighted with my old job," says United Fruit President Sunderland, who was en ticed away from a vice-presidency at Standard Oil of Indiana. United Fruit's difficulties were what excited him. "I knew there would be great personal satisfaction in straightening those problems...
...first time, Babe Ruth's durable record of 60 home runs, set in 1927, is threatened by two men: Yankee Sluggers Mickey Mantle (45 home runs to date) and Roger Maris, who brought his total to 48 last week, with seven home runs in six games. As a clincher, lively ball theorists cite the case of the Los Angeles Dodgers' skinny shortstop, Maury ("Mighty Mouse") Wills, who fortnight ago, in his 331st big-league game, and after 1,675 at-bats, hit his first home...
...well. Afterward, reporters and cameramen whom he had known in his single days hesitantly gathered round. He broke royal family precedent to chat with them, and Britain saw Tony in a new, kinder light. Last week's news that Margaret soon would produce an heir was the clincher. Cooed Daily Mail Columnist Eve Perrick: "Whatever the future of Armstrong-Jones as a public figure, of one thing he can be justly proud. As a husband, he is a definite...
Cornell's captain John Petry converted two fouls to tie the score with 1:01 left, but neither team could get the clincher, and the game went into overtime...
After changing sides at the 22-minute mark, Monro's team evened the game at 5:35. The tying goal came on the same play that scored the second. Wendell took possession of the ball at the spot where he set up Chang's clincher. The Crimson junior faked out two Penn defenders, as he did later, and kept driving in on the far left. He let go a high shot for which Burg leaped, but the ball caught in the nets...