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Slugger Colavito, 25, is a rugged (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) lad, whose rippling biceps seem to make visible bulges on the television screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second...
Probably nowhere in the world is there a college president quite like Frank Beu (rhymes with cue) of Western Illinois University. A skinny, owlish man of 59, he runs his compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have...
That Beu would welcome back a player guilty of grand larceny was too much for the faculty. Professors began writing the Macomb Journal all sorts of reports about the Beu administration. Beu angrily called a faculty meeting, threatened to fire all informers, ordered his professors to stop calling his players stupid. It was the professors, he said, and not the players, who were stupid. But the letters to the Journal kept right on coming in, one complaining of "the young scholars who spend their afternoons on the gridiron and their evenings with their fingers in somebody else's cashbox...
Atomic-bomb plants are inproving their efficiency so fast that the AEC has canceled the proposed $26 million Spoon River assembly plant that Thompson Products was to operate near Macomb...
...Fifteen-year-old Jerry Sikon of Macomb County, Mich, watched a TV horror mystery as he cleaned his shotgun. Four of his brothers & sisters were also looking on. His father, Deputy Sheriff John Sikon, a former preacher, objected to the program. His mother said it wasn't harmful. Words between the parents led to blows. After the deputy sheriff struck the wife with a paint roller, Jerry slipped a shell into his shotgun and fired at his father. "Don't blame the boy. I was wrong," said the father just before he died...