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Before he could sign up with St. Louis, Jones had to get special permission from Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, because he had not completed-or even started-high school. Classified as a "hardship case" (he was helping to support his parents and eight brothers and sisters), Jones gave his bonus to his family and headed for the Cardinals' spring training camp at Homestead. Fla.. where he worked out under the watchful eye of a farm system manager, Al Unser. "He would run until he got tired." says Unser. "and then he'd quit. We finally talked...
...Hardship Case. "Unfortunately," says Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt, "the burden of the Supreme Court decision falls not on Du Pont as a manufacturing entity but on the stockholder." If Du Pont sold its G.M. stock on the market over the next decade, the sales would almost double recent New York Stock Exchange volume in G.M. stock every business day for the whole ten years, and would depress both Du Pont and G.M. stock prices. Alternatively, Du Pont could distribute its G.M. stock to Du Pont stockholders in place of or in addition to regular cash dividends-at a ratio...
...stock to our stockholders rather than selling it ourselves." If Du Pont can persuade one of the four majority judges on the Supreme Court to agree to a rehearing, it may also ask for a longer period of divestiture-perhaps 20 years-to make the task "less of a hardship...
Checks from Montana. In the atmosphere of sharp contrast there is a despondency among the unemployed that arises from insecurity, boredom, a sense of failure and futility, rather than from physical hardship. Compared to the unemployed in other days or other countries, Muncie's jobless are pretty well off, cushioned from dire want by unemployment checks and other forms of social generosity...
...College anomaly between comfort and hardship affects matters of discipline too. At first sight, University rules and regulations seem harsh indeed. College gates clang shut at midnight and the walls bristle with wicked spikes. By day, a Proctor prowls around the University hunting for transgressors. Since tradition forbids the Proctor to undertake personally the sordid business of making arrests, he is followed by several 'Bulldogs,' gentlemen who share three characteristics: they wear bowler hats, they look like gorillas (big chests, long arms) and they run like the wind. If the traffic is heavy--and in Oxford it usually...