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...game is beisbol. The lanzador stands on the lomita and throws the pelota to the bateador, who tries to hit it over the heads of the jardineros with a mighty swing of his palo. If he hits it over the fence, he gets a cuadrangular and the home-town fanáticos go wild with...
...Natural. Batting directly behind Mays, in the No. 4 cleanup spot, is the most powerful bateador, Orlando Cepeda, 24, whose booming palo has been tormenting National League pitchers since the start of the season. First Baseman Cepeda is batting .330, leads the National League in hits (with 77), ranks second in home runs (with 15) and runs batted in (with 55). The other Latins are almost as impressive. In his second year up, Puerto Rico's Jose Pagan ranks among the league's sharpest shortstops. Pitcher Juan Marichal, from the Dominican Republic, already has eight victories...
...example, private and Government stipends hit more than $35 million. As a result, some graduate students are doubtless doing better on the inside than they could on the outside. Instructorships paying $6,000 or so a year are common; a couple with two instructorships is in clover. In Palo Alto, one couple will move next month into a comfortable new house paid for mostly by a generous Stanford stipend. And hardly anyone can resist a "traveling fellowship"-the splendid European jaunt that so often produces scholars mainly versed in Vespas, Parisian girls, conversational Swedish, Oxbridge accents and appetites for paella...
...Passion Rejected. Their rambling house in Palo Alto quickly began to attract streams of visitors, many of them students and professors from Stanford University. When Michael died of cancer in 1938, Sarah promised that she would leave the bulk of her collection to Stanford. But as time passed, friends began to notice some disturbing changes in Sarah. The beautiful Matisses that had been her life's consuming passion began to seem of no importance to her. It turned out that she was selling off the collection piece by piece at ridiculously low sums to pay for her grandson...
...took Chloromycetin late in 1958, Mrs. Love felt weak and went to another doctor, who diagnosed aplastic anemia, in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells. Her husband sold his business, the Beer Barrel Tavern outside Redding, to pay for her care, including 60 transfusions. At Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, the transfusions and vigorous treatment with cortisone and testosterone kept Mrs. Love among the 25% of patients who get aplastic anemia and survive, but the hormones produced their own side effects. Though Chloromycetin causes these severe reactions in only one of an estimated 10,000 patients...