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...that money, Maris could easily afford to pay the $2,500 "ransom" demanded last week by the Baltimore fan who caught the ball the Yankees' new hero hit for his 59th homer. But like a true big league ballplayer, Maris was not about to shake loose a single nickel. "I'll give him no more than another ball, autographed, in exchange," said Maris firmly. "That ball means nothing to him-only to me and the Hall of Fame...
...President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...
...This trend, too, has decreased union membership. Explains an A.F.L.-C.I.O. officer: "These men are hard to organize because of the gut competition for that sort of job. If a man is hungry enough, he'll take what he can get and undercut the next fellow by a nickel an hour just...
...Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly different. Twenty-two different type sizes and faces greet the reader from the table of contents page. Photos are sometimes surprisingly abstract. Despite the new look (and a nickel price rise to 20?), pledges the Post, it will be the same "well-known, well-loved voice...
...shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only can Lenore Jensen outshoot me," said...