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Neither of the two new clubs has come up with any big surprises. The Mets were playing better than .500 ball after an initial nine-game losing streak, but are currently in a new skid which has cost them eight straight. Thomas, Richie Ashburn, and Charlie Neal are performing for their new club with some of their greatest flair, but the club has been unable to bunch its hits. Rooting for the Mets, with their never-wases and has-beens becomes something of a sick joke: Hodges lines a screaming shot off the left field wall and is thrown...
...ever a city seemed to be headed toward Skid Row, it was Oakland, Calif, (pop. 367,548), San Francisco's poor cousin across the bay. In 1914 Oakland opened a new city hall, and with that last gesture toward progress, Oakland went complacently to pot. In time, the city developed all the classic symptoms of metropolitan blight: the downtown area declined, citizens who could afford to fled to the suburbs, slums spread and schools disintegrated. But last week Oakland was in the midst of an ambitious rehabilitation program that was rapidly hauling the city back up from Skid...
...nice simple country boy of 22. He began to hit the bottle and hit it hard. After the war, he kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago's Skid Row. On Jan. 24, 1955, Ira stayed up all night drinking muscatel with four other Indians in a desert shack on the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation near Phoenix, Ariz. Next morning he was found not far from the shack, dead. He had strangled on his own vomit...
Texas cowboys will fashion their Christmas trees from paint-sprayed tumbleweed, and in towns throughout the country prizes will go to the families with the best Christmas decorations. In Seattle derelicts from Skid Row will have their Christmas dinner at the "Millionaire Club" and exchange "gifts": a pack of cigarettes, a half-emptied pint of whisky, a thumb-worn magazine, some tongue-worn memories. In Long Beach, Calif., the whole town will turn out for the annual parade of Christmas floats on the canal. Little schoolchildren will come home brimming with gaiety, to show their flour-and-water pasted Christmas...
Thirty years ago, U.S. doctors saw four out of ten patients in the patients' houses; last year the ratio was one out of ten. The doctor himself has welcomed the passing of the house-call,* but many a citizen counts this skid as just one more sign that doctors are cold, uncaring fellows, heartlessly indifferent to the fact that little Priscilla's forehead feels hot or Grandma's arthritis is acting up. In Medical Economics, a Westwood. N.J.. pediatrician named Phoebe Hudson scoffs at this complaint. House calls, she says, "are just a bad habit...