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Experienced baseball men see ominous ramifications in all this, and with reason. "These newer owners are going to have to get housebroken and learn the bottom line," says Dodger Boss Walter O'Malley. Warns Charlie Finley: "People have only so much money for food, for rent, for entertainment. Athletes are going to price themselves out of the market. I do not criticize the athletes, I criticize the owners for paying these unjustified, astronomical salaries." Says Yankee Manager Billy Martin, who took a 28% pay cut in 1950 when the Yankees brought him up from the minors: "There will come...
...That forced us to change things a bit, and you can tell the difference between our newer newsletters and our older ones," Grace McConnell, press secretary to Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) said recently. "I have to be very conscious about this." Proxmire's office issues a newsletter each month...
...house and some (illegally) in the glove compartment of the car. Distrust of domestic servants is growing; the woman who has a foreign houseboy from Malawi or South Africa is considered lucky. "They're, well, more dependable," says a secretary who lives in one of the newer white suburbs named, perhaps prophetically, Gun Hill...
Harvard has done more, however, than simply redesign its fundraising drives to appeal to a certain interest group. "When the financial times are hard you get lean, musclier, and hungrier, and you start to open your door to newer forms of giving," one fundraiser said last week...
...story of master spies and code cracking was first unraveled last year in Frederick Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret. But Brown has newer intelligence and a stronger moral tone. According to his evidence, Winston Churchill, mindful of the "dull carnage" of World War I, was receptive when the pale geniuses of Oxford and Cambridge proposed "special means"-plans which often resembled the schemes of undergraduates to outwit proctors...