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Speedy southpaws, a notably skittish breed, are traditionally either late bloomers or early dropouts. Lefty Grove was 27 before he hit his stride, Rube Waddell 25 before he found the strike zone, and Warren Spahn 25 before he won his first major-league game...
Blue has accomplished more than he suspects. He, and a score of other flashy young stars like him, is part of a new zip that is livening up the old ball game. Rube Waddell and the boys in fact would choke on their chaws of tobacco if they could see some of the carryings-on at the ballparks these days. Just 16 years ago, the Cleveland Indians were mocked for shuttling relief pitchers around in a Jeep. Today the Baltimore club not only has a golf cart in the shape of a huge Oriole cap but a pretty, broom-wielding...
...innovation, however, nothing aboard Apollo 15 quite beats NASA's new I.RV (for Lunar Roving Vehicle), more commonly known as the "moon rover." Tucked away in the side of Falcon, the collapsible, 10-ft.-long jumble of aluminum tubing, wire and rods might easily be mistaken for a Rube Goldbergian version of an old-fashioned foldaway Murphy bed. Actually, it is one of the most unusual and expensive cars ever built (cost of the moon buggy program: $37.8 million...
...domestic project of his presidential term. The bill, designated the first piece of legislation introduced in the 92nd Congress, aims at the most important overhauling of the welfare system since the beginning of the dole. Its key section is Title IV, which calls for the end of the present Rube Goldbergian structure and in its place the establishment of Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, setting a guaranteed annual income of $2,400 for a family of four...
...Logic. The first part is hilarious. Esther Greenwood, as the heroine is called, is an awkward rube of a girl with "fifteen years of straight A's" behind her but absolutely no experience of life -even as it was known to teen-agers in the '50s. She and her fellow "guest" editors are herded around the city "like a wedding party with nothing but bridesmaids." Upon discovering caviar, Esther consumes a pound or so at a magazine luncheon, paving her plate with chicken slices and smearing on the high-priced spread. But she knows that the whole enterprise...