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Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...
...displayed by captain Leo Lanzillo. He remarked that "this is the second game in a row that every player on the field has had a good game. The momentum strong to an early and even though we didn't score, we showed some good flashes. We were definitely the fitter team...
Since Rose always seemed to be from another generation anyway, his formula for measuring eras may be authoritative. "The best then would be the best now, and the best now would be the best then," he says. Athletes are fitter today, obliged by the high stakes to train in the offseason. Mike Schmidt, the Phillies' two-time MVP, only 33 but allowed to contemplate Cooperstown, questions "whether Babe Ruth could even play now." A bit insulted, Rose responds, "Whatever the standard of the day is, the greats meet it. If .330 is leading, that's where Ty Cobb...
...inhaled the fumes of the foliage that had been killed by Agent Orange." Before long, he says, he began suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, and in 1969 was given an honorable discharge. Back in West Babylon, N.Y., the veteran's health deteriorated rapidly; today the unemployed steam fitter's ailments include brain lesions and degenerative joint disease...
Aiding Chrysler, the weakest of the big three auto companies, penalizes those that are fitter and undermines the competitive principle. Darwin would not have approved of bailing out Chrysler...