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...Hobby. Old salts from Rodanthe, a nearby hamlet, inspected the wrecked ship the next morning, pronounced it a "probable total loss." Professional salvage companies agreed. But one interested onlooker, Esveld Canipe, Buick dealer from Havelock, N.C., was more optimistic. Landlubber "Nip" Canipe, 38, had been fascinated with the sea ever since he moved to Havelock twelve years ago from western North Carolina. A tinkerer all his life, he had read a book about the wrecks off Cape Hatteras, and recently had tried a little amateur salvage work on an old World War I hulk up the coast from Havelock...
...went as an error. Ned Felton, batting for Don Butters, forced Cleary at second, and after George Anderson looked at a third strike, George MacDonald ended it all with a skow roller down the third baseline, which third baseman Tom Yasenki charged and flipped underhand to first to nip him by a step...
Reserves: Jake, Bare, Eel, Ice, Sweat, Nip, Sacks, Bratley, DAR, Royce, Rolls, Corny, Gwitrtzberg, Reaves...
...nip inflation last year, the Administration cut spending sharply. The reverse of that coin has been an equally sharp cut this year in taxes. This has already put $6 billion a year into the hands of industry and consumers, including the cut in excise taxes, which was first opposed by the President, but finally approved "wholeheartedly." The Administration's tax reform bill now before Congress calls for another cut totaling $1.4 billion a year. Thus the total saving to taxpayers of $7.4 billion annually (less higher social security payments) would be the biggest one-year...
Plus a hip flask for that naughty nip of booze...