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...Good a Way As Any. The Dodgers had other heroes. Catcher John Roseboro hit a three-run homer off Whitey Ford, and First Baseman Bill Skowron, a Yankee discard, bedeviled his old teammates with two run-producing hits. But none could match Koufax. In the dressing room, he rubbed a little salt in Yankee wounds. "I would have been satisfied with 14 strikeouts," he said, "but I had to end the game some way, and that seemed as good...
...Despite the heat, a coat and tie should be brought along to almost every business transaction. If the others are not wearing any, the businessman can discard his, but the rest will be disapproving if he guesses wrong and is the only one present without coat...
...find themselves in good company. Among adult quitters: LeRoy Collins, who almost lost his job as president of the National Association of Broadcasters when he expressed disapproval of cigarette ads pitched to youngsters, and President James M. Hester of New York University, who last week asked the press to discard old photos showing him puffing cigarettes, "since he has discontinued smoking...
...strike me as the most useful comments to appear thus far. Dean Monro properly underlined the fact that several student associations based essentially upon exclusive or discriminating norms already exist (e.g., the Newman Club of Catholic students, and the Hillel Society) and intimated the hypocrisy of those who would discard this fact in their haste to judge the Afro-American Association out of bounds...
...gimmick: an optional standard deduction that would entitle a taxpayer to deduct $300, plus $100 for each dependent (but not more than $1,000), even if this deduction amounted to more than 10% of his income-the present maximum percentage. For persons 65 or older, Kennedy would discard the extra $600 exemption and substitute a tax credit of $300. Since the $300 would be applied against the tax actually owed (while the $600 exemption merely reduces taxable income), the change would be a net benefit for taxpayers in low and middle brackets...