Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size of their swelling paychecks. Outfielder Maris is getting $75,000 this year; the lowest-paid player in the Cards' regular line-up (Shortstop Dal Maxvill) will collect $37,500; and the total payroll for the starting nine is $565,000. For that kind of money, Owner Gussie Busch obviously expects handsome results-and so far, at least, he seems to be getting them. In two victories over Atlanta last week, the Redbirds pummeled five Braves pitchers for twelve runs and 25 base hits, then chorused happily in the locker room: "Only a hundred more wins...
...were looted, vandalized and burned started pulling out. Most of them say they are leaving for good. "You can't get insurance around here," says Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store for 34 years. "Anyone who reopens or rebuilds in this neighborhood must be crazy," says Sheldon sadly...
...rural South, McGill admits, has come along much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...
...there is in any event enough to do with our own souls, our own institutions and society. We are to Dr. King after all as the mill owner's sister was to Gandhi--not guilty of the faults of his adversaries, but also not able to claim his virtues...
...Court of St. James's-nice enough digs, but quite a switch for Alice, who will have to leave behind her 175-cc. B.S.A. motorcycle and all her swinging siblings: Julian, 27, a London film maker and male fashion model; Jane, 25, wife of a Carnaby Street boutique owner; Victoria, 21, granny-style dresser and folk-rock fan; and Francis, 14, who rides his own 350-cc. bike...