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Veeck is the man who gave Cleveland fans a "bartenders' day," staged midget-auto races in the ballpark, and with a pennant winner (1948), posted a major-league record for season attendance that still stands. In St. Louis, he gave the fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred...
Last week's flight was like the first hesitant step of an infant who will some day grow into a record-breaking runner. Other, more confident steps will follow. Soon the X-15 will be carried aloft with a full 15,000-lb. load of liquid oxygen and liquid ammonia fuel. The emergency fuel-ejecting system and a dozen other complex gadgets will be air-checked. On another flight the X-15, probably with Crossfield at the controls, will be dropped to glide without power to earth. Then will come the first tentative powered flights, using only a fraction...
...Fabulous, absolutely fabulous," said Commander William W. Behrens Jr. of the nuclear submarine Skipjack, just returned last week from her first sea trials. "We could hardly believe it ourselves; everything went so magnificently smooth. The Skipjack will have no trouble holding every submarine record, and we won't even have to be good...
...stock market rolled upward to new highs to end the week at an alltime record of 614.69 on the Dow-Jones Industrials average...
...What worried Washington now was that industrial prices have started to inch up sooner than usual for a recession-recovery period. Though the consumer price index has remained fairly stable since mid-1958, the Fed's Young said that industrial prices have climbed 1½% above the previous record of 1957. That was all Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had to hear. He warned that big business and big labor alike are now being offered "their last chance to police themselves without controls...