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...their bats and get to first base on interference. The Dodgers' Maury Wills succeeded; the Giants' Matty Alou failed. Pitchers from both clubs traded beanballs. Marichal low-bridged Wills and Ron Fairly. So Koufax took dead aim at Willie Mays. High with the pitch, Koufax hit the backstop instead, growled: "That was a lousy pitch. I meant it to come a lot closer...
Floating Surprise? Naturally, Power feels that the U.S. needs a new strategic bomber. He insists that nuclear bombers can be retained as a backstop deterrent, argues that by firing air-to-ground rockets against antiaircraft installations ahead, among other techniques, more bombers could get through than might be expected. But under present planning, reports Power, within eight to ten years "all B-47s would have long been retired; the remaining B-52s would be worn and obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic...
...appearances and disappearances of TV newscasters are logged by the press with a fan-club fidelity usually reserved for grease paint performers-which perhaps they are. Thus when NBC, eying San Francisco, decided to backstop its top news team of Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley with another duo, the New York Times duly recorded their names: Ray Scherer and Nancy Dickerson. And when Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. signed Novelist-Playwright Gore Vidal to report both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the Times gave Vidal's assignment headline prominence-meanwhile leaving unmentioned the names of several dozen experienced Timesmen...
...Stage Assault. The army started planning Tiro Fijo's downfall months ago. Combat units were divided into small, tightly organized teams, given extensive training in anti-guerrilla warfare. To backstop the military campaign, new roads, schools and other civic-action projects were planned to draw the peasants closer to the government. The offensive began four weeks ago as units of five battalions-totaling 3,500 men-poured into Marquetalia...
With Gary Miller on first and one out. Tom Bilodeau singled. He was forced by John Dockery as Miller went to third. On the next pitch. Dockery stole second and Miller headed for the plate. The throw from second got away from the Cornell backstop and Miller scored Bob St. George singled in Dockery and Harvard had a 2-run lead...