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...Roger Maris is a cocky pro with the classic attributes of the power hitter: keen eyesight, quick wrists, magnificent coordination. His controlled, compact swing is one of baseball's prettiest sights. "There's no waste motion at all," marvels Yankee Batting Coach Wally Moses. Raised in North Dakota, the son of a mechanical supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, Maris was a phenomenal high school football player. No student ("Sports took up all my time; I couldn't keep my mind on books"), Maris turned down some half-dozen col lege scholarship offers to try out with...
...sometimes as great as 60 ft. Therefore stereo, instead of giving us 'the best seat in the house,' gives us, in fact, a kind of omnipresent seat not found in any house." Stereo, for example, does nothing to enhance chamber music which by its nature requires the compact blending of just a few instrumental voices for proper effect...
...width and 7½ inches in overall length. Ford has already brought out its intermediate entry-the Fairlane-which is approximately the size of standard sedans of a decade ago. General Motors, following yet another tack, has put its money on the Chevy II, only inches larger than a compact and apparently aimed at competing with Ford's bestselling Falcon...
...small microwave tube manufacturer, and began broadening its spectrum by picking up a handful of other small electronics firms. As its stock soared. Litton found it easy to swap shares for control of larger companies. By acquiring Digital Controls Systems Inc., it got a foothold in the manufacture of compact computers that make as many as 15,000 calculations per second for aircraft in flight. A merger with Monroe Calculating Machine Co. gave Litton a chance to apply its electronic talents to the burgeoning business-machine field, with the head start of an established name...
Chevrolet. Chevy's big surprise is the size of its new "intermediate'' car. the Chevy II. Only slightly larger than a compact, the Chevy II is intended to compete not with Ford's intermediate Fairlane. which is roughly the size of a 1949 sedan, but with Ford's best-selling Falcon compact. In a market where companies almost invariably try to blanket their competitors' offerings, this leaves a gap in Chevy's line, but Chevrolet General Manager Edward Cole defends his strategy by saying that the cheapest big Chevy, the Biscayne. will...