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...Puerto Madryn, a small town on the coast of Patagonia, a lone freighter was unloading one day last week. A big wooden crate slipped from its hoist, splintered on the docks, and out tumbled a bright pile of costume jewelry from Japan. "Enough trinkets," said a bored customs officer, "to adorn every nanny goat in Patagonia." The jewelry, as the customs officer well knew, would soon be heading north from barren, duty-free Patagonia as a routine part of Latin America's most wide-open smuggling operation...
...kill desirable animals or have other harmful biological effects. If no such disadvantages show up, the bat-killers of Brazil and other vampire-menaced countries will soon fan out into the jungle, catch vampire bats, infect them with the disease, and release them to return to their caves and pile them high with dead...
...Malley agrees with the diagnosis. But rebuilding the team, he argues, was impossible so long as his base of operations was the stained and gloomy pile of masonry hard by Prospect Park. "Look at it this way," says he. "Brooklyn draws a million people. Milwaukee draws two and a quarter million. Results: 1) they can pay their players more; 2) they can absorb more farm club losses; 3) they can have more front-office talent; 4) they can buy more bonus players. The momentum is Milwaukee's. Obviously, we have deteriorated into a noncontending ball club. I decided that...
...around snivelling about how little money you have. Everybody knows you have just oodles stashed away for a rainy day. Well, friends, at the present time there's a flood. So pile up the money and build the dam that will help our nation's economy. Spend money. Waste money. Have a ball for yourself. Just so long as you really spread it around...
...comment on buyer disenchantment was nowhere causing greater anguish than in Detroit. Motor moguls assumed that the President was talking at them, thereby giving further currency to charges that new cars are overstyled, oversized and overpriced. With sales running 1.2 million behind 1957 and inventories continuing to pile up, the President's comments, said one Detroit automaker, were "grossly unfair...