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...charges came last week from Washington, where Senator Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee probed into the high price of tranquilizers -which cost up to six times as much in the U.S. as in foreign countries. One Miltown tablet costs only .7? to make, testified Carter President Henry Hoyt, but it sells to druggists for 3.3? and retails for about a dime. Why the wide spread? Into every pill, replied Hoyt, Carter figures research costs of .4?, promotion costs of 1?, profit of 1.2?. As for promotion, Carter has a blue-ribbon mailing list of 92,000 doctors, figures it spends...
...realized when I was pitching high school ball, says James Hoyt Wilhelm, "that I wasn't fast enough to get by. I had read about Dutch Leonard and the kind of junk he was throwing for the Senators, and I set out to see if I couldn't throw some too." Hoyt Wilhelm's "junk" is the craziest knuckle ball in baseball today. It floats up to the plate, dances tantalizingly before batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept...
...Giants gave up on Wilhelm after the 1956 season, when he temporarily lost the knack of getting men out in tight spots. His knuckler was missing the corners, and when he got behind the batters, Hoyt was forced to use a fast ball or slider, with disastrous results. "Hoyt began to worry and try different things, and the more he changed, the worse it got," says Wes Westrum, the Giants' catcher in those days...
...wondering how it is that the name was changed in this fashion, for it was spelled correctly in the Nation. Perhaps the "ey" is a Harvard localism, like the British "...our," of which I have been unaware. yours &c., N. H. Hoyt Amherst...
Seconds after an Eli shot bounced off the post, Pratt juggled Hoyt Ammidon's 35-footer between his legs for a goal at 5:55 of the third period. The Crimson retaliated with goals at 7:03 and 8:06 by Collins and Higginbottom, both on rebounds from shots by a defenseman. Then with the score 5 to 4 and time running out, Yale was in the process of pulling its goalie when McGonagle rapped a high shot past Pratt from 10 feet to send the game into overtime...