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...were yet born when the famous old Redbird team was terrorizing the National League in the mid-1950s - but the family resemblance is unmistakable. There is Lou Brock dashing madly for second and sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining his .339 batting average and 19 home runs...
...TIME-LIFE Books in introducing a new series devoted to summarizing and displaying this diversity. The opening volume in the TIME-LIFE Library of America, out this week, is The Pacific States, covering California, Oregon and Washington. The author is Neil Morgan, a Californian who in 1963 published Westward Tilt, a much-acclaimed study of the region. TIME-LIFE'S The Pacific States contains maps, travel and nature information, museum listings. Above all, it contains an account of "the restless edge of American society"-an edge that we at TIME have often explored. In his preface, Poet-Critic Kenneth...
...Harvard. B.U. tilt went a period and a half further down the road to upset city. The Crimson found itself possessor of a 5-4 lead and seemingly in control of the game with seven minutes to play...
Though advertising agencies might tilt about car-rental rankings, there is no argument over the No. 1 in their own profession. Meeting in Chicago last week, directors of Manhattan-based J. Walter Thompson reported that the 102-year-old company had easily maintained its place at the top. During the past year, the agency added ten domestic accounts, signed up 65 overseas clients, and received enough additional business from blue-chip accounts, which include Ford, Eastman Kodak, Pan American and Kraft Foods, to bring total billings up to $580 million...
...Some tilt windmills; the Harvard wrestling team tries to beat Cornell for the Ivy League championship. This year Coach Bob Pickett will juggle his line-up before each meet to fulfill his glorious quest...