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Breathing down the Pirates' neck is fifth-place St. Louis, for whom the inability to win the close one has been a crippling weakness. Further, although the Cardinals have been able to hold their own against the first three clubs, they have been unable to fatten their record by preying on the second division teams...
...Captain Foglemayer-the customer can tell he's the captain because he wears a gold-braided hat and keeps rolling two ball bearings around in his hand-calmly goes below with his broad, a slinky brunette named Virgie (Carolyn Jones), not forgetting to give the crew their instructions: "Fatten the hatches...
Hedging, Not Hogging. Balancing these bad omens are some favorable signs. Not only are the 1962 autos off to a fast getaway-which portends more steel buying by Detroit-but.some manufacturers are beginning to fatten their steel inventories against a possible strike when steel labor contracts expire June 30. Last week Ford Motor Co. said that it was already stocking up; Chrysler and General Motors plan to start hedge buying in January. But because most steel users expect the Kennedy Administration to step in and stop any 1962 steel strike early in the game, steelmen suspect that hedge buying will...
...considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags (his pet phrase: "Trade'm away for a dog and then shoot the dog"). Always doing just a little...
...Crutches. Europe's Central banks could have prevented the sharp gold rise by selling enough gold to fatten the thin market, since transactions in London amounted to only $25 million daily. But that would have meant purchasing gold from the U.S. Treasury to cover the sales, and thus worsening the U.S. gold outflow -a step the U.S. did not encourage. Some Swiss bankers criticized the U.S. Treasury for lacking the courage to stop the price rise, felt that Treasury could have saved the situation quickly by the dramatic gesture of sending U.S.-held gold to Europe to loosen...