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...Santiago was different. He was as fragile as Tovar, but the confidence, if there was any, had been diffused in his skinny frame. One was afraid that he would trip on the pitching rubber, throw his first pitch into the stands, collapse in Puerto Rican tears. And one wanted the Press to leave him alone...
Only manager Dick Williams, walking from the clubhouse to his office, paused to think about the St. Louis Cardinals. "We'll pitch Santiago Wednesday," he said, "and Lonborg Thursday--to give him a bit of rest...
Balaguer consults regularly with his ministers, but allows them little independent action. "Nothing gets done," says Santiago Food Processor Jimmy Pastoriza, "that Balaguer does not approve personally-which means, of course, that some things do not get done." Balaguer works a twelve-hour day, then continues talking to visitors at his home. As the country's most peripatetic leader since Trujillo, he also likes to helicopter out into the countryside for chats with peasants...
...Wall Street's craftiest speculators. Baruch could be bearish or bullish. He once sold Amalgamated Copper short and realized $700,000 when Amalgamated reduced a dividend, causing its overpriced stock to tumble. Another time, alerted by a newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten the Spanish at Santiago, virtually ending the Spanish-American War, Baruch spent July 4, 1898, on the cable buying U.S. stocks in the London market. Next day he made a neat profit when the New York Stock Exchange reopened following the holiday and prices shot upwards on word of the victory. Baruch was proud to have...
...universities, the European Southern Observatory agency and a joint British-Australian group, which have started building three 146-to 150-inch telescopes in southern latitudes this year. A U.S. telescope costing about $10 million will rise at Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes, 300 miles north of Santiago. A European instrument will be placed on nearby La Silla Mountain. In Australia, a $12.3 million instrument is slated for Siding Spring Mountain, 200 miles from Sydney...