Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When California Angels Righthander Nolan Ryan pitches, curious things happen. Batters edge back from the plate, opposing managers bench their red-hot hitters, Angel outfielders let fly balls drop in for base hits, and the Angel catcher stuffs a half-inch-thick pad of foam rubber into his glove. The reason: Ryan throws so hard he rewrites the basic customs of the game. Batters inch back because they are scared, managers yank top hitters because they can't connect on high fastballs, Ryan's own outfielders are lulled to sleep by the preponderance of infield outs his pitches...
Basketball Dream. Though Ryan still suffers from control woes-he led the majors in walks for the past three seasons-he is now the compleat pitcher. By combining powerful leg thrust off the rubber with whip action in his arm, the 6-ft. 2-in., 198 lb. pitcher fires a fastball that, if anything, is fastest at the end of a game. When he doesn't want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that...
Divorced. Phyllis Diller, 58, rubber-faced doyenne of domestic comedy; from her husband of ten years, Actor-Singer Warde Donovan, 59; in Los Angeles. Ms. Diller's courthouse exit line: "We have a great settlement. I got the house and I gave him the gate." - ∙ Died. Marguerite Perey, 65, pioneering research chemist; of cancer; in Paris. At 20, Perey began working as a laboratory assistant to Marie Curie at the French Radium Institute. In 1939 she isolated francium, the 87th element in the periodic table. Cancer, probably caused by her work with radioactive elements, had already afflicted...
...Thailand, American companies have more than $120 million invested, largely in rubber tires, textiles and electronics. Preparing to journey for a firsthand look at the Asian situation, National Semiconductor Corp. President Charles Sporck last week termed his company's Thai assembly plant "a source of concern." He added that despite Thai government assurances that the plant is secure, "to tell you the honest truth, I'm not so sure." In the first quarter of 1975, applications to invest in Thailand from U.S. and other firms fell more than 50% below a year ago. Says Mitsuo Unabara, a Japanese...
Even before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries began jacking up oil prices in 1973, prices for other raw materials were breaking records. Spurred by shortages and rampant speculation in commodities markets, prices for such staples as copper, rubber, cocoa, coffee, platinum and cotton rose sharply; some had doubled or tripled by mid-1974. But after the oil crisis helped push the West into recession, commodities prices tumbled, in some cases to a third of what they had been at the peak. Copper, for example, rose nearly 300% in 17 months, peaking at $1.40 per Ib. a year ago; this...