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...know what else Archie Roberts does, aside from being your favorite all-American boy? Last spring he turned up as Columbia's .300-hitter shortstop, "the finest infield prospect in the East," according to Harvard baseball coach Norm Shepard...
...encouraged to think otherwise by a second piece of asinine twaddle, again much closer to Lampy's norm. Two undergraduates find that Harvard's phantom colored paneler has murdered some Georgian architects. It's tough to imagine anyone cracking a smile over this insipid little soporific, except possibly Dean Sert...
...year-old Wally Bunker (season's record: 14-4), worked only four big-league innings before this year. The best run producer, hulking Outfielder Boog Powell (31 home runs, 80 RBIs), is sidelined with a chipped bone in his wrist. The most promising new acquisition, First Baseman Norm Siebern, is suffering through the worst season of his career at the plate. The No. 1 relief pitcher, Stu Miller, a $30,000 man, has given up 10 runs in his last 17 innings...
...grown from 40 to 48 million, and the gross national product from $31 billion to $72 billion. Class feeling is being diminished by the embourgeoisement of the workers, more and more of whom reach a level of prosperity where a four-week vacation and a small car are the norm-although inflation and wretched housing still bedevil them...
...lucrative freight accounts form 60% of its revenues, the Bundesbahn has to carry such privileged patrons as commuters, students, workers and war veterans at government-dictated cut rates (up to 96% off). An even greater drain is its welfare costs: 40% of salaries for pensions v. a German norm of 18% to 22%. Despite the Bundesbahn's $250 million-a-year government subsidy, Oeftering argues: "It's not the federal government that subsidizes the railways; it's the federal railways that subsidize the government...