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...retire. "I don't want to quit when I'm going downhill but when I'm at the top," he says. Until he does, what are his rivals to do? One French sportswriter had a suggestion: he would like to see Eddy carry a 30-Ib. pack on his back as a permanent handicap...
Known to teammates as "the beeg fella," the 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ib. Carty describes himself as "a crazy hitter until two strikes, then I look for the strike . zone." Bat cocked straight up like an exclamation point, he hits with power to all fields. In a recent game against Philadelphia, he pounded three home runs to three different fields. That may be just the beginning. In past seasons, Rico notes, he has always done his best hitting in July and August...
...perhaps 100 flights, shuttles will sharply reduce the cost of putting men and materiel into space. That price now comes to more than $1,000 for every pound lifted into orbit by NASA's nonre-usable Saturn 5 boosters. Shuttles should reduce the tab to $50 per Ib. or less...
...Italians christened it "Mao's moon." The British said its recording of The East Is Red sounded somewhat like the chimes of an ice-cream wagon. Though the "moon's" batteries were running down, the message that China's 380-Ib. satellite delivered as it orbited the earth last week was clear enough. Peking's space feat would inevitably affect the course of the SALT talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at Vienna, and ultimately it might also set off a nuclear-arms race among a number of smaller powers. In fact, the prospects...
...same day as the nickel increase, major U.S. producers of lead lifted their prices by 1/2?per Ib., to 16?, the sixth increase this year. Almost immediately, General Battery Corp. said that automotive and industrial batteries, which contain much lead, would go up. 5%. The higher lead prices reflect greater world demand for the metal and a paucity of new supplies...