Word: arming
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Nightly Diatribes. In the eleven years since the Suez crisis, the Arabs have increased the power of their armies mightily. Egypt alone has received $1 billion in military hardware-tanks, planes and rockets-from Russia, and both Moscow and Peking have helped arm the Syrians. Jordan and Saudi Arabia have been able to beg and buy their share of power from the West, and Iraq has been getting guns from both sides. Yet Israel has been keeping pace with the Arabs in expanding its armed might, still believes that its army of 300,000 regulars and reservists can stand...
Three years have passed since six-year-old Craig Thompson lost his right arm in a suburban St. Paul auto accident, but his family has yet to receive a cent in compensation. Reason: the insurance company involved has gone broke. Los Angeles Motorist Dominga Lopez found herself in a different kind of bind. She carried a $100-deductible policy, and her insurance company tried to get her to pay $200 damages herself by insisting that a three-car smashup was actually two separate accidents. In Memphis, a collision with a city bus cost Businessman T. J. Downs...
Signed originally by the Dodgers in Puerto Rico in 1954, Clemente was farmed out to Montreal in the International League, where the Pirates picked him up for $4,000 in the annual minor-league draft. It was quite an investment. He possesses probably the strongest throwing arm of any outfielder in the business: from 420 ft. away, he has fired a perfect strike to the plate to catch a runner trying to score from third. Though he is only 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 Ibs., he can hit any pitch-good or bad, and with power, as Cincinnati Pitcher...
Fireballing Mike Luggen won two games, and struck out the most opponents. The tall Kentuckian, who had arm trouble early in the spring, had a good curve and a moving fast ball. Gus Crimm, when he wasn't playing first base, also saw a good deal of action on the pitcher's mound...
...strong right arm of Ray Peters had one of its better days yesterday, as the Harvard baseball team closed its season with a 4-1 win over Boston University at Splinter Stadium...