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Cooperstown, N.Y. From the start Stengel had the gift that Merlin enjoyed in The Once and Future King: he began decrepit and grew younger. The man who was too stiff to play at 35 was loose enough to manage in the majors and minors, learning, listening, coining the tortured syntax that would soon be labeled Stengelese. He perpetually refused to recognize players by name, only as "my big guy" or "that fella on first"; he told nonstop, outrageous stories and then claimed, "You could look...
...cannot afford even the smallest apartment. For them, what passes for independence is a clammy rented room and a hot plate. An estimated 2,000 oldsters cling to life in $15-a-week furnished rooms in Boston's shabby South End. A few others find homes in peeling, decrepit residential hotels like the once elegant Miami resort where Mrs. David Yates, 90, gets a suite of rooms, maid service and two meals a day (no lunch) for $500 a month. People who cannot afford even this much may sometimes find a plain but safe haven in public housing projects...
...social and health benefits for each member of the work force, a staggering sum in a nation where per capita income is only $3,085. The high taxes necessary to finance these benefits have helped drain away funds needed for the modernization of Britain's overaged and decrepit plants; industrial production in the past three years has risen much less in Britain than in any other major industrial country...
...would receive the average amount of tax dollars spent on his child, say $1000, in voucher form. He could then use this voucher to send his child to any school, public or private, he chose. This plan would benefit mostly the poor, who would have a chance to escape decrepit inner city schools. The plan would greatly improve education as schools become subject to the demands of the market place. Friedman writes, "Private schools of all kinds would spring up to meet the demand. Public schools would either have to meet the competition or close their doors." The plan would...
...Argentina with less than $60 in his pocket. By the time he was 23, he had parlayed his earnings from odd jobs (such as dishwashing and working as a telephone lineman) into a million-dollar business that included cigarette manufacturing, dealing in rugs, hides and furs, and operating a decrepit tramp freighter. His formula: 20-hour work days, a penchant for juggling several deals at one time, an ability to unravel the complex maritime laws...