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Once he was a graceful Gold Glove outfielder and .300 hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, earning $90,000 a year. But when the Cardinals tried to trade Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1969, he filed a suit challenging baseball's reserve system. Said he: "I am a man, not a consignment of goods to be bought and sold." The Supreme Court upheld the reserve system, and an angry Flood quit baseball, drifting around the world, tending his own bar on the Spanish island of Majorca and painting portraits for $350 and up. Now that baseball players...
Still another stellar Crimson performance came in the 10,000-meter event, where distance top gun Ed Sheehan stayed on the heels of Army cross-country star Curt Alitz and Cornell's Pete Pfitzinger for a third place finish...
...Walter J. McNerney, president, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations; C.E. Meyer Jr., president, Trans World Airlines, Inc.; Frank Pace Jr., president, International Executive Service Corps; Bert E. Phillips, president, Clark Equipment Co.; Charles A. Shirk, president, the Austin Co.; Forrest N. Shumway, president, the Signal Companies, Inc.; Curt R. Strand, president, Hilton International Co.; O. Pendleton Thomas, chairman, the B F Goodrich Co.; Thomas R. Wilcox, chairman, Crocker National Corp...
...singles--Bob Horne (H) def. Curt Dashiell...
What mountains labored to bring forth such a ridiculous molehill!" complained Bonn's respected daily Die Welt. "A piecemeal approach that cannot work," sniffed the foreign currency chief of France's largest private bank. Such was the curt reaction in money centers last week to a widely ballyhooed U.S.-West German agreement that will give Washington more ammunition, in the form of borrowed deutsche marks, to use in defending the battered dollar. But unfortunately, the greenback fell once again in all major currency markets...