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Until this f. 3.5 entrepreneur came along the baseball umpire was a valuable if not always respected citizen. At worst he was a mainstay for cartoonists. At best he was a grand figure standing upright and strong as the pop bottles whomped off his chest protector, his arms folded and jaw set, as the players slunk to the showers and the managers fumed in their dugouts. His eyes were weak but his word was law and his wrath was a sight to behold...
Yankee manager Casey Stengel will go with either Johnny Sain or Bob Kuzava and Vic Raschi in today's doubleheader with the Red Sox at Fenway Park. New York mainstay Allie Reynolds will pitch tomorrow, and then again Sunday, with Raschi probably pitching against the A's on Saturday...
...million U.S. Roman Catholics make up only 8% of the world's Catholic population, but they are the free-currency mainstay of the Vatican's finances; they also provide nearly 20% of the world membership in Catholic religious communities. Last week, on the lakeside campus of the University of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind., 1,978 superiors and other officials of religious orders in the U.S. gathered for four days in the largest congress of religious orders in the church's history. They represented a total of 157,000 nuns, 44,000 priests...
...picked up to the point where raw wool prices were on the rise again, and rayon and acetate shipments were up 4½% since March. The wholesale-price average of all commodities turned up 0.1% for the week, indicating a stiffer demand for raw materials. Moreover, construction, long a mainstay of the boom, was still running 5% ahead of last year's level in spite of FRB's failure to remove its Regulation X curbs on building...
...ALAN PATRICK HERBERT, 61, represented Oxford University as an independent Member of Parliament for 14 years,* has written more than 40 books, a dozen musical comedies, and is the mainstay of Britain's humorous weekly, Punch...