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Perhaps the cruelest result of the practice is that it encourages youngsters to pin their hopes on an athletic future to the detriment of normal educational and social growth. Nearly 1 million boys play high school football, but only 21,500 of them win scholarships to major colleges and universities. And only 333 college players were drafted by the pros last year. Insists Fordham: "The coaches request it, and the parents buy it. The kids who are good enough to make it on talent, the ones you read about in the sports pages, are never held back...
...only damage was to the Royals' pride. Willie Wilson, who this season became only the second player to get 100 hits both left- and righthanded while averaging .326, suffered the cruelest fate. His Series-ending strikeout set a new record for whiffs (twelve). Brett, ey ing Wilson's empty locker after the leftfielder had fled to the showers, sympathized with his teammate: "Willie did things this year no player has ever done before, but this is what people will remember, the strikeouts...
Proposition 2 1/2, given a slight edge to win in recent polls, "is the cruelest hoax every played" on Bay State voters, City Councilor David Wylie, who asked for the special session, told his colleagues...
...cruelest, if most honest, of the three villains if Ferdinand, the Duchess' other brother. Shiels and Raymond have gambled heavily here, casting a woman, Kate Levin, as the lustful Ferdinand, but their bet pays off. Ferdinand is passionately in love with his own sister: Levin's casting makes incest all the more unsettling. Insanely jealous of his sister's husband, Ferdinand destroys his sister rather than see her happy with a man he thinks unworthy of her. Unlike Cort and Sands, Levin moves awkwardly--on purpose. Ferdinand struggles against an over-whelming passion, giving in to impulse and then regretting...
...interest rates surged on the eve of the 1973-74 recession, they have been losing deposits in a big way. April, for instance, is normally a poor month for the savings banks, since their customers commonly make large withdrawals to pay taxes. But April 1979 was by far the cruelest ever: nationwide, savings and loan institutions lost $1.5 billion in deposits (vs. an increase of $400 million last year). They gained back $1.2 billion in May, but that was considerably below last year's more normal $2.1 billion in new deposits...