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...each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (.330) for National League batting honors. Equally notable is his penchant for playing every second as if his spikes were hot out of the forge, with a headlong slide here, a diving catch there, and everywhere a run, run, run. "If I had eight Pete Roses," says Cincinnati Manager Dave Bristol, "we'd run all over the league." Adds Teammate Tommy Helms: "It makes you tired just being around...
...major groups with which he must deal, the students and workers, are in no mood to accept highhanded treatment from the government. Still, Couve is a man of such undisputed talent and dedication that he may be able even to overcome his personal reserve in order to meet headlong the greatest challenge of an already distinguished career...
Above all I refer to the violence with which these issues seem irretrievably bound up and to the headlong frenzy with which our country pursues its ambiguous destiny...
Brutal Diagnosis. The need is urgent because Israel's economy has been ailing for months. During its early years of headlong economic growth-at average rates of 9% a year-Israel's imports raced beyond its exports, resulting in a chronic balance of payments deficit. To right the balance, the country in 1965 resorted to a tough dose of economic mitun (restraint), which slowed inflation, though at the cost of a standstill economy and mounting unemployment (now 8%) in Israel's 927,000-man labor force. Mitun was a casualty of the Six-Day War, as Israel...
...Lane increased its branches from 13 to 61 while steadily expanding its services. C & S was a pioneer in converting to data processing and introducing freight-bill payment services, under which the bank pays the shipping bills of its customers directly out of their accounts. C & S also moved headlong into travel services, now ranks as one of the South's largest travel agencies. One of the first major banks to issue its own credit card, C & S was first to offer the "instant money" privilege that entitles holders to borrow against their cards. After all, reasoned Lane...