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...seven years. He blazed on, swelling attendance figures by an estimated 15,000 fans wherever he performed. When Oakland opened a series against the Minnesota Twins with Blue on the mound, the gate was 23,334; next night, with Blue on the bench, it was 11,147. Between victories Nos. 17 and 18, Vida took time out to become the second-youngest pitcher in history to win the All-Star Game. Then it was on to Detroit to No. 19 before a crowd of 53,565. Afterward, the fans thronged outside the clubhouse chanting "We want Vida! We want Vida...
HUNGARY: Under the New Economic Mechanism, launched in 1968 by Party Chief János Kádár, Hungarians have encouraged personal initiative and allowed many prices to find their own levels in relatively free markets. The result is easily the most stimulating atmosphere of any East-bloc country. But even Hungary is demoralized by the housing shortage that plagues all of Eastern Europe; 47% of the Hungarian population is crammed into one-room dwellings. Still, executive suites in Hungary hum with excitement as managers pore over computer printouts, circling moneymaking products in green, average earners in yellow...
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Seraphim). The frisky First Concerto, written when Shostakovich was 27, remains one of his most disarming works-especially when he plays it himself, as in these performances recorded...
...tournament play, in the better pool halls and by the more discriminating owners of home tables. The painstaking job requires baking a resin mixture in molds in ovens of varying heat for periods of from seven days for a white cueball to 15 days for a striped ball (Nos. 9 to 15). The two firms of Usines de Callenelle and La Décalite, have cornered about half the world market for cast-resin balls, with roughly two-thirds of their output going to the U.S. Their annual revenues from sales in America total...
...that you could not see the path from above. Every so often, just on the edge of the road, there was a checkpoint bunker that could hold two or three people. Farther apart, there were lots of depots slightly off the main trail. They were numbered-we saw Nos. 16 through 19 on our walk-and were indicated on the path by crosses carved into the bark of a tree and painted...