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...summer of the great.400 chase, Milwaukee's Cecil Cooper goes unnoticed. While George Brett flirts with the magic mark, Cooper flirts with anonymity, quietly amassing statistics which place him alongside Brett as the league's most consistent hitter...
...every day a guy has a chance to hit .400," Cooper says. "He's having a good year, and I'm having a good year, but I'm not really upset he's getting the coverage. That's something that comes along every 30, 40 years...
...Neither Cooper nor Brett will ever win a home run title. Both play in small, midwestern markets. But Brett's Royals, sporting baseball's best record, are coasting toward the post-season television exposure of the A.L. Championship Series. The Brewers, picked by many to win their division, have flopped; they stand in fifth place, 13 1/2 games behind...
...mixed one. The typical small town is free of the city's unruly ambience but not of its nagging problems. Small towns, just like the cities, struggle constantly with tight budgets and pressing needs that keep rising faster than revenues. "In little bitty towns," says Frederic Cooper, program manager of the Mississippi Institute for Small Towns, "the entire budget might go to pay the policeman and the light bill at the town hall." Downtown decay is common place in small town America, as are shortages of housing, medical service, diversions for the young and suitable settings for the lonely...
Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., the manufacturer of Valium, as well as the sister drug Librium, says that it agreed with the FDA wording "to help ensure continuation of the appropriate use of our products." In fact, the drug maker backed a continuing medical education program under Dr. Theodore Cooper, outgoing dean of the Cornell University Medical College and former HEW Assistant Secretary for Health. The program's announced purpose was to educate doctors on the diagnosis and treatment of the consequences of stress. Critics charge, however, that it was only a subtle effort to promote continued sales of tranquilizers...