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...spindleshanks spoiled what might have been his best season, stranding him on the bench for a third of the year. At 37, Yogi Berra could only manage a .222 average, and 1961's bullpen ace, Luis Arroyo, spent most of the year with his arm in a whirlpool bath...
...Venezuelan government. In a sprawling, $3.6 million plant now under construction at Valencia in Venezuela's industrial "Golden Triangle," INSA plans to manufacture a dozen different products under license from nine U.S. firms ranging from Rhode Island's Fram Corp. (oil, gas and air filters) to RCA Whirlpool (refrigerators, washing machines and gas ranges). The U.S. firms will get royalties of up to 5% of production costs, can sell the finished goods through their own distributors if they wish. To ensure that INSA products match the originals in quality...
...book, Tropic of Cancer is a soup, a whirlpool perhaps even a sewer. To make different order out of it is intensely difficult for the week-stomached, it is impossible. Characters and scenes float in and out of the with a wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face...
...child's snowsuit, a woman's jacket and a man's jacket), dry-clean the works for $1.50 to $2. Average price for the same job at a standard dry cleaner's: $8.35. Twenty-three U.S. appliance makers (among them: Norge, Philco, Westinghouse, RCA-Whirlpool, Frigidaire) are rushing to get in on the market, have already sold some 25,000 units, at which consumers will spend more than $30 million by the end of the year...
...lure Brooker away from Whirlpool, Barr realigned Ward's pecking order, abolishing the title of chief executive officer, which Barr himself had held, and establishing a new title-chief administrative officer-which went to Brooker. This, said Barr, means that "chairman and president are now on a par." Ward, which still suffers from the aftereffects of longtime (1935-55) Chairman Sewell Avery's ironhanded management, is as yet reaping no profit from Barr's costly drive to open new stores. Last year the company earned only $15 million-a 50% drop from the previous year. Brooker...