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During his training moves over the huge oval he had shown speed and stamina, but neither boot nor bat could budge him past a spot on the clubhouse turn where a friendly side road beckoned towards his stable area. He had made plain his stand, or so he thought...
...meeting with protests that such a rule would reduce to absurdity the already limited powers of the conference. Australia's stocky, hard-hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee: "The great powers. . .attempt to impose upon us rules of voting which in practice prevent us from securing acceptance for our points...
...Council say it lacks guts. Zook and his aides, who prefer to avoid the arena themselves, spend a lot of time on the long-distance telephone-pressuring educators to pressure Washington. Their methods seem to work. In the 79th Congress, which adjourned last week, Zook & Co. went to bat for eight bills, made five hits (UNESCO, the Fulbright bill for war-surplus scholarships, the Mead bill to house G.I. students, Naval R.O.T.C. legislation, the Selective Service compromise on 19-year-olds...
Chesapeake & Ohio's ebullient Robert Ralph Young has a 1946 batting average of 1,000. First he went to bat for through transcontinental sleeping car service at Chicago and St. Louis-and scored (TIME, April 1). Next time up, he got a base hit on his campaign against the black market in Pullman reservations. ICC approved Pullman's suggested changes on rail reservations...
...jump from the snow covered forests of Czarist Russia to the swamp land of Louisiana with nothing more than a Valentine card in between to announce the transition. Only twice is the film worthy of the reputation of Walt Disney and of Disney's former achievements. "Casey at the Bat" features the voice of Jerry Colonna plus some very fine satire on rattling the pitcher and whipping the ball around the infield after each out. It is reminiscent of Disney's "How to Play Baseball" of four years ago, one of the funniest cartoons ever released. In "Willie the Whale...