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...shortstop, the Yanks' Fred Stanley has practically become a household word. Dave Concepcion is no match for this .240 hitter. The same is true at third base. How can Pete Rose, with a .323 average, compare to Graig Nettles, whose average hovered around .245 this year...
...mother. She lives in a four-room apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn with the four children she had by a man named Vicente Santana, whom she lived with from 1959, when she first came to New York from Puerto Rico, until 1969. A present member of the household is Francisco Delgado, whom she took up with some months before she and Mr. Santana parted...
...third in the past year. U.S. Steel, for example, lifted prices on sheet products by 14% last October and another 6% in June. At the same time, the industry is faced with weakening demand for flat-rolled products. Though automakers' sales are booming, purchases of appliances and other household goods are lagging...
...with Dick Wald, NBC Chairman Julian Goodman and President Herbert Schlosser, and that jury is still out. "If Miss 'X' walks in tomorrow, we might consider her," cautions an NBC executive. Quite so. During the 1974 talent hunt, Brokaw was the odds-on favorite, followed by other household names. The winner that time: Jim Hartz, almost-no one's first choice...
...Cambridge, Mass., called American Science & Engineering Inc. Its method, a bidirectional power-line carrier, is currently undergoing testing in homes in New Jersey and Wisconsin. The system costs $175 per installation, v. $79 for the ripple controller. But it allows for two-way communication between a utility and a household with two apparent advantages over ripple control: meter information can be conveyed directly through the system, thus obviating the need for an extra meter and someone to come and read it. More important, perhaps, the utility can also manipulate the customer's load by computer to arrive at maximum...