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President Eisenhower's taste in literature is supposed to run to westerns, but the book he kept pressing on friends and Cabinet members is a work of philosophy called The True Believer. A shrewd study of fanaticism, the book was written by Eric Hoffer, a San Francisco longshoreman and, before that, a migrant farm worker...
...settlement called for a 39?-an-hour package increase over the next two years -17? more than management offered, 11? less than labor asked. This is roughly a 5% to 6% increase a year, while industry's productivity is increasing only 2% to 3% yearly and longshoreman productivity is actually declining. Meanwhile, the agreement did nothing about the featherbedding "work gang rules" that management claims are holding productivity down. This question was left to what promises to be a nearly endless series of study groups. Even with that victory, several locals dawdled about going back to work until word...
...Scott was eleven) but did not respect him; he respected his domineering mother but found her difficult to love. At prep school he had an inordinate vanity, was given to boasting about his nonexistent athletic prowess. At Princeton, where he was remembered for his "arrow-collar head on a longshoreman's body," he was no scholar but he enjoyed the big-time competition for campus prestige, certain that his talents would be recognized. But throughout his life, there was always a Hobey Baker (Princeton's famed halfback and hockey star) or a Hemingway to overshadow...
This year the horse most frequently bracketed with Man o' War is one of Big Red's own great-grandsons (see chart): a doughty, walnut-hued, four-year-old gelding named Kelso, who runs like an antelope, eats like a longshoreman (10 qt. of oats daily), and is hooked on sugar cubes. The only race Kelso has lost this season was the Washington Park Handicap, in which he finished fourth on a slippery track, under top weight of 132 lbs. Running against the best distance and weight-carrying horses in the nation, Kelso has won the Brooklyn. Suburban...
Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.), "Old Stoneface" Hutchinson has the shoulders of a longshoreman and a face that might have been sculpted by Modigliani. He has been known to terrify rookie ballplayers merely by staring at them, and his temper tantrums are monumental: enraged by the loss of a close game, he has attacked the dugout watercooler, ripped his uniform to shreds, and pounded a concrete wall until his knuckles were bruised and bleeding. When Hutchinson was pitching for Detroit, recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed...