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...five no-hitters, an average of 15 strike-outs a game, a niggardly 0.45 earned-run average, and eight major league clubs on his tail. While a platoon of scouts watched, wheedled and courted Wade. Dale Blasingame did all the talking for his boy. The talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others frankly confessed they were on budgets, and I just as frankly told them that they weren't even close." The San Francisco Giants, hoping to harvest a homegrown product, sent out three scouts last year...
...Blunt Terms. Almost every day, it seems, Goldwater's baritone voice can be heard telling the nation what he thinks it should know. In the ballroom of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel early last week, he arose before 1,200 top New York businessmen to plead for a return to constitutional principles and a sound dollar. "I can't think of anything Mr. Khrushchev wants more than irresponsible fiscal policies such as we are under today-where we don't even know what the deficit will be next year." In recent weeks and months, and in blunt...
...scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type."* as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer might well be described, has now turned up in U.S. bookstores clad in a clean collegiate jacket, tailored at $7.50 by Grove Press, intellectual outfitters to the offbeat, the off-color and the off-limits (in 1959 Grove issued the unabridged Lady Chatterley's Lover). The publishers have so much confidence in Miller's notoriety that they paid the author $50,000 in advance and dumped a 30,000 printing into hospitable bookstores (Scribner and Doubleday, among others, are holdouts) weeks...
...separate himself from his own Vice President, Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, a political opponent elected by means of an electoral quirk that permits ballot splitting, Quadros refused to call off corruption investigators, who have implicated Goulart in several scandals, or to blunt their reports. On a protesting letter from the Veep, Quadros scribbled: "Return, for not being written in adequate terms and not representing the truth...
...West's first great blunder, according to Kennan, was World War I. Following the military deadlock of the fall of 1914, he says, there should have been a compromise peace. For total victory was impossible, due to the fact that modern warfare is too blunt and undiscriminating an instrument for the accomplishment of any aim other than mass destruction...