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...surprisingly. After all, the Sons of Stoughton were outnumbered better than two to one. And sturdy and stalwart though they were, the sons of Holworthy were sturdier and more stalwart yet. Fact is, they were a bunch of jocks...
...Good. Hardly anybody throws at George Scott-and that's another kind of tribute. The rookie first baseman of the Boston Red Sox is sturdier (at 6 ft. 2 in., 217 Ibs.) and maybe even stronger than Reichardt. He also is a straightaway swinger who hits his hardest shots right back through the middle-over the pitcher's mound. So opponents have concentrated instead on varying their pitches, probing for a weakness. New York's canny Whitey Ford figured a high fastball might be just the ticket-until Scott hit it 500 ft. into the upper deck...
...fatalities? Safety engineers at Harvard, Cornell, some of the insurance companies and in the Government believe that it is possible to build a stylish and economical yet fairly fail-safe car that would cut highway casualties by half. Achieving that would require, among other things, more reliable brakes and sturdier tires, bigger mirrors, better window visibility, and other devices to help prevent the "first collision"-the crash between a car and another object. Much more important, the safety scientists have lately begun to emphasize the "second collision" that occurs eight-tenths of a second later-the crash between the passengers...
...tragedy underscores the great gambles being run in the quest for gas under the North Sea, the most treacherous body of water ever ventured into with offshore drilling rigs. That fact not only heightens the danger to crewmen but vastly increases the expense. The sturdier rigs required cost as much as $10 million apiece; to drill a well costs another $2,000,000. Not every well is a strike, nor is every strike a commercial proposition: Continental Oil Co. of England, the only other company that has struck gas in Britain's portion of the North Sea, recently abandoned...
Positive Outlook. The institutions are moving back in because the market is sturdier than a month or two ago, and offers some good buys among the blue chips. The market has successfully absorbed a series of new stock offerings (notably General Aniline's), which normally bleed cash from other stocks, and it has weathered the usual rush of tax selling before April 15. On the international front, the U.S.'s military gains in Viet Nam, the nation's apparently successful campaign to narrow its balance-of-payments deficit and Britain's determination to solve its problems...