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There were a few changes in the Hose's homecoming--some new names on the roster, an American League pennant blowing crazily in center field, meter marks indicating the distance down the lines, and $1.2 million scoreboard that led the crowd in a National Anthem sing-along, and flashed instant replays and useless batting line-ups throughout the game...
...established players, spring training is a paid vacation, but for those who are trying to secure one of the last places on the roster, it's a time to do what you're told, and even then you have to pray...
Since by law state and local governments are immune from federal taxation, the ones that participate in Social Security join voluntarily. They may quit after ten years by declaring their intent two years in advance and may change their minds during the notice period. The roster of dropouts is growing because Social Security taxes are mounting-employer and employee shares have each reached a maximum $895.05 a year-and are likely to keep climbing. Private pension plans often turn out to be a better investment, especially since the 1974 Employee Retirement Security Act ensures that workers whose private pension plans...
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...
That this year's squad would have to worry about inexperience is the last thing that you would expect if you looked at last year's roster. Of the 30 players who appeared in a game in 1975, only seven graduated. The team scored 190 points last season; the players who graduated scored only...