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When Alvin Dark took over as Oakland's manager this spring, he said he had a model for the job. It was not John McGraw, Miller Huggins, Casey Stengel, or any other successful field boss. "The past few years," announced Dark with a straight face, "I've tried to think of how Jesus Christ would handle ballplayers...
...McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses into line. "It's on-the-job training," said a proud but anxious Ali from a safe distance. As for Steve, he proved something of a distraction. One smoke-choked and begrimed L.A.F.D. member did a double...
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...billion this year. That would mark a 13% jump over 1973 spending, which in turn was 12.8% higher than in 1972. There have been no back-to-back years with gains that large since 1965-66. And the Government's estimate is actually on the conservative side. A McGraw-Hill survey conducted mostly among larger companies last month resulted in a prediction that capital spending in 1974 will rise...
Dark of the Moon is by two nice gentlemen named Howard Richardson and William Berney. It takes place in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Its story concerns a witch boy who turns human to marry a girl named Barbara Allen. At the end, as the McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama eloquently puts it, "once again a witch, John looks without recognition at the body of the girl he once loved." Well, the course of true love never did run smooth. This weekend and next in the Leverett Old Library...