Word: lock
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Changing the Lock. In the swirl of last week's scandal, Wayne Hays was struggling to hold on to his chairmanships. Besides the Congressional Democratic Campaign Committee, he also heads the supremely important House Administration Committee. He has used that power to control pay raises for all congressional staff members and Congressmen's allowances for travel, telephone, postage and other items...
Last week's piece (May 10), "In the Counting House," continues these reflections, this time musing on the business side of baseball. Angell writes for the non-fan, and takes pains to explain the machinations of the reserve clause, this spring's lock-out, next year's new franchises, and the current attitudes of the players and owners. Angell sympathizes with the former while realizing that the vast majority of fans are angrily reacting to "the view of the athlete as an employee and a card-carrying union man," which "violates our fan vision of the athlete as a mythic...
They failed, and already have suffered the consequences. In March, when the owners voted 23 to 1 to lock the spring training camps, the one was Veeck. ("That's the usual tally," he says.) A few days later, he unveiled the new White Sox warm weather uniform-short pants. On opening day, peg-legged Veeck (he lost his leg as a result of a 1943 war wound) choreographed some Bicentennial foofaraw and greeted his crowd as the fife player in a fetching patriotic ceremony. Marching across the field with him were Business Manager Rudie Schaffer on drum and stern...
...time and liquor control determined their relations with the public. Between 1860 and 1869 there were 70 murders in Boston. Theft, especially pickpocketing and burglary, were common, and there were some spectacular bank robberies. The Civil War produced great riches for some but, until the perfection of the Yale lock in 1865, there was no effective way of protecting such wealth. In 1864 alone, the Boston police reported that nearly a million dollars had been stolen. Professional detectives emerged who would attempt to recover the loot in exchange for a fee, usually about 10% of the proceeds...
Then what are we to do? Just lock up the offenders, suggests Wilson, as in the old days. There should, he says, be "equal deprivation of liberty for equal offenses...