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...recovery from the recession, even the hardest-hit industries are showing sharp improvement. Last week the laggard railroads were back on the track: carloadings rose to a 1958 high of 667,277 cars, only 8% under 1957. Several of the carriers deepest in red ink nudged into the black for the first time in almost a year...
After football had ridden out the storm of protest against its brutality, Harvard coaches began to devise even more brutal plays. Yale was no laggard either; and the second half of The Game of 1892 saw the introduction of collegiate football to the "Flying Wedge." "Guards Back," "Tackles Back," the "Turtle Back," and other brawny plays soon followed. By 1894 the games were so gory that a two-year break in relations with Yale resulted...
...seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati Reds (who took the series, 5-3) and won. And not until a year later did Dickie or anyone else know for sure that he had been throwing for thieves-that his laggard teammates were the notorious Black Sox who had been bought by gamblers and had fixed the series...
...into operation by the Republican Administration." But the general Democratic strategy had been coldly planned and was coldly executed by Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and "Mister Sam" Rayburn. Its essentials: 1) let the Eisenhower Administration move first on tax cuts; the longer Ike waits, figure Democrats, the more laggard his party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile, the Democratic Express could roar down the tracks with a highballing series of antirecession spending bills-and Republicans could grab...
Last year nearby Medicine Hat (pop. 21,000) adopted the plan. Of ten students who got "laggard policy letters," five left school, but the rest began working so hard hat they earned a special commendation. Last month Sault Sainte Marie, Ont. announced that it, too, would follow the plan, and last week down in North Attleboro, Mass, letters went out to parents spelling out a new policy by which "intellectual loafers and bench warmers" are being dropped. At a time of rising costs and the growing teacher shortage, the plan has its appeal. Says Calgary's Superintendent Warren...