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...hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been up to .411 when the season moved into July. In June he batted .486-with one astonishing eleven-game streak at .610. What's more, Ca-rew's performance...
Fitzgibbons fired his superlative round despite taking three-putt greens. "The greens were absolutely outrageous," he said. "It was deplorable." Fitzgibbons birdied three holes including the brace of treacherous par threes, the third and 16th. He holed out from 20 feet on the third, remarking, "I just tried to lag it but it went in, bounding...
...letting the market determine prices. Says Sprinkel: "It's backward economics. We're not allocating enough resources for investment." In addition, Greenspan fears that the program will create a new bureaucracy, add to businessmen's uncertainty and result in a continuing lag in much needed investment in plant and equipment in all segments of industry. Says Greenspan: "The view that somehow this program is going to enhance growth is to me an utterly noncreditable notion...
...effective moments, and it begins with Roosevelt on the campaign trail in 1912. The absence of random, stream-of-consciousness reminiscence as attempts to carry out present action in a one-character play seem almost inherently doomed to failure. Some "corny" lighting and musical effects only worsen the general lag in the first part...
...music, also written by Berger, maintains an agreeable tempo. Only the rocker "Do It Now" is hummable, probably because it sounds vaguely familiar. Bue's beautiful tenor carries his songs, but the rest of the company desperately needs voice lessons. Roffner sings powerfully but not pleasantly; Harper and Genovese lag off key more often than...