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...chants, plagued for more than a year by a Negro boycott that was 90% effective, saw their profits plunging even more because of the demonstrations. Birmingham's racist reputation had long been bad enough to frighten away potential industry; rioting by King's forces would further scar the city's image. And, despite the headline-hogging prominence of such racists as Bull Connor and Governor Wallace, there were a significant number of moderates in Birmingham who wanted peace, simply because they believed the Negro indeed deserved better treatment than he was getting. In fact, last month Birmingham...
Whether Marvelous Marv returns or not, the Mets will show a scar. The pernicious professionalism that entered through the wound could possible strike Miss Rheingold from the roster. And Casey Stengel ought to note that Marv Throneberry was not the only Met bearing the Yankee's trusted mark of professional disapproval...
...soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work...
Salon from Ford? By far the most powerful-and conspicuous-elite in present-day Germany is, of course, the Geld-aristokratie, the new industrial plutocracy whose yellow Mercedeses and Chris-Craft cruisers have largely replaced the Iron Cross and the dueling scar as status symbols. The new upper crust is personified by such tycoons as Rudolf August Oetker, who parlayed a baking powder business into a 100-company empire; Hans Giinther Sohl, who as boss of Thyssen since war's end has turned a family ironworks into West Germany's biggest steelmaker; and Munich's Rudolf Miinemann...
Besides hurdling some personal obstacles, Clutterbuck overcame many business handicaps peculiar to Latin America. Six years ago a discharged worker shot him in the face, leaving him with a twitchlike scar. Late in 1961, when many other Argentine businessmen were spending wildly in a euphoric inflation, Clutterbuck and a few top executives sensed political turmoil ahead and started retrenching. They gradually laid off 1,500 workers and cut back terms for installment-plan sales from two years to a year or less. All this deflated volume, but helped to preserve profits...