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Barry Malinowski relieved a tiring Weissant in the sixth, and hurled two strong innings. Tom O'Neill took the mound for only one third of an inning in the eighth as a walk, an error, another walk and a fielder's choice scored...
...style team, the royals are led by pint-sexed shortstop Freddy Patek, both a defensive and baserunning wizard, and genuine superstar Amis Otis (Why the Mets traded him I'll never know), Dick Drago and Mike Hedlund, two pitchers I have never heard of, lead a supposely sound mound staff. The Royals may surprise a few people...
...addition of phosphates, nitrates and potash to the mix produces a high-yield fertilizer, which is being sold commercially within a 200-mile radius of the city. Of course, the company's capacity is too small to make more than a dent in New York's huge mound of garbage. And if all the trash in the city were treated this way, it would produce more fertilizer than the area really needs. But the company plans to expand operations, perhaps to 1,000 tons a day, and make and market other things-such as wallboard and artificial lumber...
Throughout the explorations in North America, a frustration and a challenge confront the archaeologist. Unlike their counterparts in Europe and Asia, diggers in America have no early writings to match with physical remains. One of many enigmas never fully elucidated concerns the Mound Builders, who, starting before the birth of Christ, festooned the U.S. Midwest and other regions with great piles of earth, up to hundreds of feet in diameter. Some of the mounds are shaped like animals, so vast in circumference that their forms could not have been fully perceived at ground level by their creators. Mound building...
...Hailey. For all his understanding of the machinery and machinations of the industry--much of which is described very well--he ultimately underestimates the emotional void in which auto men operate. The wealthier one gets in Detroit, the more one is expected to isolate himself amid an ever-growing mound of private possessions. The more Hailey's characters succeed in over-coming their various object fixations, the less real they become. In his attempts to bring auto-executive characters to life, Hailey is trying to turn stickmen into figures of flesh and blood. He doesn't understand that people...