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...Roger Maris slipped quietly into Hamey's office for some business banter of his own. Maris, who signed his first Yankee contract two years ago for $18,000, demanded $75,000 for 1962. When Hamey suggested that $55,000 ought to pay the taxes on Roger's offseason earnings Maris decided to go back home to Ray town, Mo. and mull the whole matter over...
...Saltwater barnacles and marine growth are the bane of boat owners, particularly in the offseason, when the boat is rarely used. "Boatbath," a kind of floating "wet dock," is designed to save the owner the expense of hauling out or the chore of scrubbing the boat bottom using diving gear. Manufactured by Boatbath, Inc. and made of polyvinyl chloride, Boatbath comes in sizes ranging from 24 ft. up to 40 ft., is priced from $150 to $295. The boat is floated into the Boatbath (which, in turn, floats like a huge bathtub, with its edge at the water...
...congressional offseason, Washington's bare stage seemed especially inviting to the political Thespian. Thus, last week, did Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey cartwheel out with a proposal that won top billing in a slow political week. Along with five other Northern and Western Democrats (Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, Montana's James Murray and Michigan's Pat McNamara), Humphrey circulated for publication a "Democratic Declaration of 1957." Its message: as soon as the Congress opens, make an attempt to end Senate filibusters and enact civil-rights legislation...
...line that gets it. The run has long been the possession of Eastern and National. Last April, a CAB examiner recommended that in the "public interest" a third carrier (he recommended Delta) be added. There is no doubt that a third carrier is badly needed; even in the offseason, as at present, travelers must often wait two or three days to get seats...
Today in the U.S. lacrosse is a familiar sport from Florida to New England and west to the campus of Ohio State. It is only natural that it is a popular offseason diversion for football players who like to keep in shape. At Maryland, Muscleman Frank Tamburello, one of the most promising quarterbacks in collegiate football, is an enthusiastic lacrosse player. And since Navy and Maryland have not met on the football field since 1952, Tamburello and his teammates have an added incentive to scuttle the Middies in lacrosse...