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...filling stations to undertaking parlors, rabid fathers and coaches trying vicariously to realize their own frustrated ambitions, mobs of partisan fans to whom winning means more than the boys' welfare or the game. Counters Pete McGovern: "The kids, on their own, can take the competition in their stride; it's the adults who sometimes go off the deep end." Admitting that local abuses have forced withdrawal of some Little League franchises ($20 a year), he points out that, "a bureaucracy" would be needed to police some 11,000 potential trouble spots. Adds he: "Little League must have growing...
...belief is widespread that while boxers and big-league ballplayers are old at 40, that is just the age when giants in the arts and sciences begin to hit their stride. Not so, says Ohio University's Professor Harvey C. Lehman in Age and Achievement (Princeton University; $7.50). In nearly every field of creative activity, claims Psychologist Lehman, the greatest men register their greatest achievements* by the time they...
...outdoor exhibit is part of the museum's summer show, "Sculpture of the 20th Century" (TIME, Oct. 27), which also includes (indoors) such outstanding pieces as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, poised in mid-stride with arm upraised in beckoning command; a voluptuous Matisse nude and a light-as-air Degas dancer; less representational studies like Constantin Brancusi's shining, vertical Bird in Space and his monolithic marble Fish, which for all its solidity conveys a feeling of watery motion. The high quality of the show has helped keep the ticket-takers near the big glass...
...Sword, a bay colt driven to show money by Del Miller, who is still Helicopter's trainer. In the third heat, at sharply reduced odds of 7-5, Helicopter was trotting second close to the finish. Then the leader, Allwood Stable's Kimberly Kid, broke his trotting stride. Laying on the whip, Helicopter's Driver Harry Harvey strained forward in his sulky, catapulted his charge a half-length ahead across the finish line. Elgin Armstrong's vacation hunch had paid...
...Carlson of Dresser Industries predicted: "Whatever reduction there may be in defense expenditures will not be enough to make the economy sag." Said Gordon M. Jones, president of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce: "Let the budget be balanced, let the dollar be stabilized, and business will take in stride the curtailment of defense spending...