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Last year the transformation from Flatbush to Hollywood was almost complete, but not quite. The Dodgers still were able to blow the big ones. By this season, though, O'Malley and Walt Alston (a pretty serious grind himself) succeeded. They didn't have quite as good a ball club but they didn't make the crucial mistakes either. Last month it was the Cardinals who folded, and what may be a new era for the National League began...
Stainless is created by blending the high-grade steel with chromium carbides, which toughen it, make it resistant to rust, corrosion and great heat. Sweden's steelmakers cold-roll the stainless steel to 4/1,000 in., then grind, polish and cut it into blade-wide coils before shipping it to the blademakers, who stamp and sharpen the final blade. Stainless is also indispensable in making nuclear reactors, missiles, jet engines and supersonic plane wings, as well as surgical instruments and food-processing equipment...
...undergraduate liberal arts college, loosed a freshet of liberal learning throughout its technical schools, and started pruning its 2,000 courses, which still include such "guts" as business-letter writing. For the first time, coed Penn's 18,347 (10,354 fulltime) students are griping about a "grind school." For the first time, grand old Penn is reaching briskly for clarity and corporate purpose...
...last spring, later met and congratulated her. Youngest of nine children of a music-loving Ohio farmer, LuLu (nee Marianne Wolford) began singing professionally only a year ago, says her first act was "a bomb." She does a mean belly dance as a sideline, but finds the bumps a grind, hopes to narrow her repertory to singing and acting...
...second only to Arnold Palmer's record $85,955-Nicklaus suggested that the tour's top golfers should knock off for two months each year to rest: "When you play twelve months, the game is no longer a pleasure; it's a nerve-racking grind." He then ambled off to set his sights on the next big payday: the $50,000 top prize in the World Series of Golf this September, a tournament that pits the winners of the Masters, U.S. and British Opens and the P.G.A. against one another. Because Nicklaus has won two of them...