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...addition to providing laughs, the game gave the slumping Crimson hitters the chance-of-the-season to fatten their batting averages. Dockery led the gourmands by collecting three singles and a double. On top of this 4-for-4 performance, Dockery added four stolen bases and scored five runs...
...Populist potentates who had done much to lead the poor and exploited into the affluent society, it was time to step down. Grizzled, rotund David Dubinsky, for 34 turbulent years president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and bluff, white-thatched James G. Fatten, fiery head of the National Farmers Union for the past quarter-century, both retired last week, turning over their flourishing organizations to less flamboyant men noted more for managerial than messianic talents...
...from 20% in 1955 to more than a third of the total last year. During the same span, trade with Russia fell from 69% to 41%, nearly as much as with Rumania's Red neighbors. "Why should we send corn to Poland?" asks Premier Maurer. "So Poland can fatten its pigs and buy machinery from the West? We can sell our corn direct and buy the machinery we need ourselves...
...Indian Fatteners. The best estimate is that the guerrillas are in four bands, totaling possibly 1,000 men, and strongest in the area around Huancayo. Their leaders are Communist professionals: Guillermo Lobaton, 34, a Peruvian trained in insurgency in Cuba and Red China and reported to have fought with the Viet Cong, and Castroite Lawyer Luis de la Puente, 36, wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. The terrorists preach the usual Communist line about capitalist exploitation and free land for all, attempt to counter the government's own considerable efforts at aid and social reform among the Indians...
...million in a year. Tobacco and cotton have swung upward from $236 million to $295 million. The greatest increase was in animal feeds (from $521 million to $672 million), which ironically can only serve to reduce U.S. meat sales. Even now, U.S. feed may be helping to fatten France's excellent Charolais cattle, which were bred, like Charles de Gaulle's force de frappe, to give France a louder voice at the world's conference tables, be they in the palaces of Geneva or the stockyards of Chicago...