Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editorial Thunder. But the stalling has backfired. In newspapers across the U.S., angry and disgusted editorials have blasted the delay as, among other things, "frivolous," "base," "petty," "foolish," "spiteful," "senseless," "inexcusable" and "unconscionable." Even the liberal Washington Post, no friend of conservative Lewis Strauss, protested the Senate's dillydallying. "It ill becomes the Senate," said the Post, "to use its power of confirmation as an instrument of harassment...
...Lieut. Colonel Charles Platt Jr., who bulldozed his way onto a Military Air Transport Service plane in Japan last month, unseating half a dozen Stateside-bound G.I.s. The general: Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, boss of U.S. military forces in Japan, who ordered the plane to return to its base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having commandeered six precious seats for himself, his wife and four children-all bound for a Hawaiian holiday-Platt...
...active duty aboard submarines on patrol: the Rev. John Laboon Jr., lieutenant. His watery parish will consist mostly of nuclear-powered subs carrying ballistic missiles. "I hope to have a large parish before long," says Father Laboon. "At sea I'll care for the men; on the base I'll look out for their families...
Vada Pinson, 20, folded last year after only three weeks with Cincinnati, and was shipped off to Seattle. This season the well-built left-handed batter is hitting a snappy .357. Pinson blames his failure last year on a bases-loaded homer he socked in Pittsburgh in the second game of the season. "I'd never hit one with three on before," he explains, "and I started looking for the chance to do it again. I'm not that way any more. All I'm trying to do this year is get on base...
Because of sloppy base running, which cost a few runs, and some spotty fielding, the Yardlings' performance was only adequate, except in their hitting, which was led by the lower half of the order: Dwinell, Karp, Kolden, and Boone, the winning pitcher...