Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the drop in Ford stock from 64½ to 53½. At the close of the meeting, many of them hurried forward to shake Ford's hand. In Wilmington, Del., General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice, who is worried about FRB's tightening of credit (see box), told stockholders that sales were seriously down, but noted that higher production by other G.M. divisions-notably Electro-Motive diesel and Allison aircraft en gines-would take up some of the slack...
Rhee, of course, was reelected, but by the lowest margin of his career-barely more than half the vote. The late P. H. Shinicky polled an extraordinary ghost vote of nearly 1,500,000. But the real surprise of the ballot box was the defeat of Rhee's hand-picked vice presidential candidate by Rhee's bitter foe, husky, affable, 56-year-old Chang Myun, who anglicizes his name as John M. Chang. A onetime friend of Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee...
...odds would be even better if Roberts were willing to throw a few close ones to keep hitters loose. But his opponents know that he won't, so they occasionally scrounge off him. They step into the batter's box with complete confidence that he will put the ball near the plate ("The inclination is just to say 'Strike! Strike! Strike!" says Umpire Jocko Conlon. "He's so close you gotta watch him like an eagle.") If the hitters happen to be hot, they can dig in and hammer him unmercifully. This refusal to throw anywhere...
Dainty Switch. A calm man, Roberts recovers quickly from even the most awesome shellfire. This season, after winning his first three games, he was beaten in the next three, knocked out of the box twice. Another pitcher might have wondered whether that inevitable slide down had begun. Not Roberts. One night last week, with his cool and easy motion on the mound and his reckless behavior on the base paths, he beat the league-leading Milwaukee Braves almost singlehanded, 2-1. He struck out ten men, allowed only eight hits, tore home from second on an eighth-inning infield single...
...pitchers who figure that their only work waits for them on the mound-is typical of Roberts' attitude toward baseball. He loves every minute of the game. He is a better-than-average fielder, can knock down the line drives that whistle back from the batter's box, moves fast and surely to field bunts. Despite his dainty, mincing style at the plate, he is a competent (.250) switch-hitter. "I'm happy as can be out there," he says. "I enjoy all of it-fielding and swinging at bat and all that stuff. If you enjoy...