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This just had to be the loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had already beaten the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. In 15 minutes, the Dodgers were due on the field to take on the tough Milwaukee Braves. And what were they doing? Sitting around...
...anyone who looked at the top of the National League standings. Last week, with four clubs-the Dodgers, Giants, Milwaukee Braves and Cincinnati Reds-bunched so closely together (within 1½ games) that only a crowbar could pry them apart, the league was in the midst of the tightest pennant race in its history. Two other teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies, were also within striking distance of the leaders, and the tension was terrific-especially in San Francisco...
Demand for skilled and often for unskilled workers outstrips the supply in Britain (unemployment rate: 1.3%), and in The Netherlands, Australia, Sweden and Japan (all .9%), and in West Germany (.5%). The squeeze is tightest in West Germany, which has 683,000 vacant jobs for 106,000 persons on the unemployment rolls. The shortage would be even worse if Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal were not continuing to export labor; of northern Europe's 4,000,000 foreign workers, 24% are in Germany. Even so, wage boosts this year in Germany (8%) and England (61%) have leaped ahead...
...heroine of the title story is Melba Toast, "the skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos's 1925 bestseller, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, like Lorelei, has a mousy girl friend to come along on double dates...
Clothing is completely up to you, but make sure that you are warm enough. The sharpest and tightest pants with stripes on the sides don't help you in subzero temperatures unless you have long underwear. Snow bunnies may admire you beautiful haircut and lots of grease (kid . . .) in it, but frozen ears can harm this picture considerably...