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...that Catcher Gene Oliver, who hit only 13 home runs all last year, clouted four in 24 hours to win two games? Or the clutch pinch-hitting of Don Dillard (average: .200), who drove in the winning run twice in a week in the last inning? Or the fantastic spurt of Third Baseman Eddie Mathews, who raised his average 26 points (to .259) and accounted for 25 runs in nine games...
...Optimistic claims have also been made for the administration of a synthetic hormone, similar to testosterone, to speed up the C.F. victim's metabolism. But some doctors complain that improvement after the treatment is mainly superficial and usually shortlived. There is the disadvantage that after a brief growth spurt, a child may be permanently stunted because the hormone shuts down the epiphyses (growth ends) of long bones. Beyond such controversy, the most encouraging news about C.F. is that the combined effect of all the treatments has helped a great many patients to live past adolescence into young adult life...
...Government may or may not serve as a model of responsibility, but it has become deeply committed to deficit financing. The Treasury in effect admits that the current national debt will never be substantially reduced. When a spurt of tax revenues during this year's first quarter temporarily narrowed the deficit to only $100 million, many of Washington's activist economists actually grew nervous; the last thing they want the Administration to do is balance the budget. They feel that the recent tax cuts are not enough to keep the economy stimulated and that increased Government spending...
High Riding. Ford's recent sales spurt is largely the result of a $40 million remodeling job last fall on its medium-price Taunus models (price: $1,689 to $2,330), which were handsomely restyled, given more powerful engines and equipped with front-wheel disk brakes...
...construction industry stands to be the biggest beneficiary of the windfall, though the actual spending will be sufficiently spread out so that no sudden spurt in jobs or contracts is likely. But thousands of other businesses are already getting a boost from local and state expenditures, which are climbing fast and have now passed the $80 billion-a-year mark. While federal tax revenues have risen 42% to $89.4 bil lion a year since 1953, state and local revenues have spiraled 134% to $49 billion-frequently distressing both the individuals and the corporations who have...