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...copter pilot has yet been selected; the Air Force is now testing various 'copters for suitability, and Draper, who has flown 'copters himself, is checking out Army and some civilian pilots for possible employment. Hottest Washington bet on the machine that will win out: Bell's plush, 2,350-lb. 47-J, which normally carries four, including pilot and copilot, has a range of 194 miles and a 108-m.p.h. top speed...
Gang and lately a TV sportscaster, sniffed at the plush-lined genteelness of today's game. As ex-Manager Frisch sees it, baseball training camps nowadays "are no more than country clubs without dues." Other evidence of baseball's decline from its rigors of yore: "In my day there were no rides to and from the park. You walked-and if you were caught riding it cost you 25 bucks . . . When they wanted a new manager, you were told simply to 'get outa here-you're fired!' Owners are more polite nowadays; they announce...
...world in on the inspiration he experienced during his ten-month sojourn in the Soviet and satellites last year, Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera last week turned his own plush Mexico City gallery over to a show of his latest works: 150 oils, watercolors and drawings, all of people and places behind the Iron Curtain...
...issuing of the joint committee findings follows years of deep questioning of the whole "bicker" system--through which sophomores are hastily picked for membership in the 17 plush undergraduate eating clubs that line Prospect Street. The alumni-controlled club system, with its strong hold on undergraduate life, maintained by a monopoly over upperclass social and dining facilities, has been criticized as an island of outside interference within the University...
...came to Leningrad last week-the first Western symphony to appear in the Soviet Union. Every Leningrader with enough influence to get his hands on a ticket (12-40 rubles - $3-$10) or enough money to pay scalpers' prices (hundreds of rubles) was inside the gold, ivory and plush Philharmonia Hall. Thousands of others heard the music over the radio...