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...Fifteen busloads of Episcopalians-bishops, priests and laymen-took a morning off from the General Convention to tool through industrial Detroit for a look at "the 20th century workingman." Trailing through the pounding, whirring world of the assembly lines, the men and women from greystone, Gothic city churches and suburban spires stared at the men who are making the '62 models. The auto workers stared back...
...slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...
There is no social structure in Washington Elms; in the fifteen years since it was built, social workers have found no centers of life, no bars where men congregate, not even a corrupt political machine to command loyalty. Abandonment here means that a majority of children say their father does not live at home. And abandonment is the insularity of inferior government services, of political impotence, of being a football in organized charity's fights with the city of Cambridge, of living in The Elms, roughest, poorest, dirtiest most hopeless blocks in the city...
Frailty & Indiscretion. Fifteen years after the captain's death, the News is almost as big as ever, with 1,980,338 daily circulation (it peaked at 2,400,000 in 1947) and 3,244,667 on Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH...
...Club's spring turnout was large enough to permit the second fifteen to play as full a schedule as the first. (In rugby, no substitutes are allowed, so fifteen players comprise a complete team.) The second unit defeated the New York Rugby Club, tied Yale, and lost to Dartmouth, Princeton, and Columbia...