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Michael Grant Marshall, 31, has become the best relief artist in baseball largely on the strength of his screwball. Actually, he throws several variations on the basic screwball, a pitch that breaks away from lefthanded batters and often sinks as well. To keep hitters off stride, Marshall also has a good fast ball and a decent curve. Two weeks ago, in the All-Star game, he put his repertory to good use, retiring the last six American League batters to preserve the National League's 7-2 victory...
...take criticism in stride (despite all the practice) or to accord aggressive journalism a legitimate role in relation to Government. Going back to his days as a young Congressman, he has been quicker than most politicians to question the motives of those who cross him. The lack of understanding has been mutual. Reporters are accustomed to dealing with evasiveness in politicians; poking behind facades is part of their craft. But as most reporters try to figure out Nixon, one facade seems only to hide another. Not only journalists but many Republican politicians are put off by a quality that comes...
Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans of Radcliffe and Harvard, took the problem in stride, optimistically predicting that over-crowding would disappear as students moved off campus, switched to a less crowded house, or decided to take the semester...
...year-old company, the S.S. Kresge Co. of Troy, Mich., got off to a very late start. It was not until the mid-1960s that the firm hit its stride in the discount merchandise field. Today it is the third largest and fastest-growing ma jor retail operation in the nation. Sales in 1973 amounted to $4.63 billion and in creased 24% hi the first quarter of 1974. Kresge Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Dewar wants to lift sales to $12 billion by 1980 and leave current front runners J.C. Penney (No. 2) and Sears, Roebuck...
Chances are that those of us developing mesothelioma will not be afflicted by it for another 30 or 40 years. Perhaps an increasing cancer or sarcoma mortality rate is one of the "occupational hazards" of being an urban dweller. Our generation will have to take such things in stride. But what about those ahead of us who will be exposed not only to that asbestos produced in their own lifetimes but also to all of the residue produced in our own? Perhaps in a university like ours, endowed with such a wealth of creative talent and scientific resources...