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...Kansas City Athletics have trouble hitting a ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...
...home buyer and home builder are often confused in making a choice. "There is more competition in the building industry than ever before," says Earl W. Hadland, merchandising manager of Chicago's Masonite Corp. "In outside siding, for example, it's wood v. aluminum v. hardboard v. plywood v. steel...
Efficiency v. Elegance. To keep pace with a London-based staff that grew from 75 to 2,262 in its 96 years, the Foreign Office desperately divided and subdivided its ornate acreage. Today it is a dim maze of minute, plywood cubbyholes linked by mosaic-floored corridors and a warren of back stairs. Many of the garrets have no windows, or only a piece of one, and most of the windows cannot be opened anyway. Even the mouse-ridden attics have been carved into typists' collectives and digs for bachelor-duty officers...
...appointment as a research professor at Southern Illinois University, at Carbondale. Bucky's duties are vague and undemanding: he sees students only when he feels like it, and he is in residence no more than a couple of months a year in the medium-sized, blue-and-white plywood dome where he and Anne live in Carbondale. It looks like an overgrown pincushion without pins. But Bucky does not mind, and does not see why anyone else should. As he once wrote in a light moment, to be sung to the tune of Home on the Range...
...financier who prizes the title so highly that he wears in his lapel a small coyote made of diamonds. With a personal fortune of well over $15 million, Trouyet (pronounced true-jay) is a director of 42 companies and chairman of 19 of them-in telephones, steel, cement, plywood, textiles, hotels, beer and banking...