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...human condition, a refreshing breeze blew out of Missouri from famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, 75. "A hundred years ago, violence was much worse than it is today," the chairman of the board of trustees of the Menninger Foundation told a group of Park College students. "You say it isn't safe to walk down the streets today. It never was safe to walk down some streets." The world, insisted Menninger, "is getting better. We're getting better control of violence and of our own behavior than we've ever had before." Then he added...
...after the Kansas civil service board held hearings and ordered nearly all of the demonstrating aides reinstated, Bay had to admit that the aides had a case. "If this were my own private business," he said, "I'd go broke in a week. This just isn't any way to run a railroad. We have moved the aide's responsibilities forward without giving him comparable recognition." The main problem, as Bay saw it, was the huge staff turnover. Except for physicians, one-third of Topeka State's employees have been there for less than a year...
...them fight it out in an intrasquad game. Howard won 2-1 and got the job; McLain was put on waivers and claimed by Detroit for a piddling $8,000, an indignity that triggered the terrible McLain temper. He still gets mad when he thinks about it: "Isn't that a hell of a way to make a decision ?on the basis of one ball game?" Denny was still fuming when he was called up from a farm club to pitch for Detroit in September 1963. In Tiger Stadium on Sept. 21, he made his major-league debut?against...
Denny's relations with his teammates became strained, particularly after he was quoted by a newspaper as calling the Tigers a "country-club ball team." He vigorously denied ever making the remark: "And may God strike me with a lightning bolt if that isn't true." Denny's traveling roommate, Pitcher Joe Sparma, promptly requested new accommodations, "just in case the Almighty should make a mistake and get the wrong...
...isn't that New York's Lincoln Cen ter is scrabbling frantically for funds, or faced with the gloomy prospect of closing its doors if more money is not forthcoming. Yet even with nearly $170 million in the kitty, the Center is still almost $6,000,000 short of what it needs to complete the remaining buildings on the 14-acre complex. "It is raising those last few millions that is the most difficult," says Board Chairman John D. Rockefeller III. But now to the financial rescue comes Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, 78, co-founder of the Reader...