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138. One man was wearing number three when the Yanks decided to retire it, and was the last man to wear number seven before Mantle. This same man was the first to be a defensive replacement for Joe DiMaggio. Who is this star-crossed Yank?
The event had been long expected, yet it still came as a shock that reverberated through the U.S. labor movement. After 24 embattled years as president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, 85 and ailing, announced last week that he would retire in November. When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane...
Their defection appeared to stem from professional rather than political motives, and mainly from a refusal to become sports apparatchiks. Though the aging couple are in superb physical condition, the Sports Committee of the Council of Ministers reportedly insisted it was time for them to retire from performing, and pressured...
...second and third year. At the end of the contract these retired workers could be receiving as much as $935, or 33.5% more than the present pension level. Pensioners already retired would also get raises, depending on age, length of service and when they left work. A retiree now receiving $700 a month will receive $865 by the end of the contract...
Higher oil prices have clobbered sales of recreational vehicle equipment, but Coleman maintains that "two-thirds of our business is either unaffected or helped" by the energy shortage. Says he: "We don't believe people are going to stop camping, but they are going to camp close." Then too...