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Blue has accomplished more than he suspects. He, and a score of other flashy young stars like him, is part of a new zip that is livening up the old ball game. Rube Waddell and the boys in fact would choke on their chaws of tobacco if they could see some of the carryings-on at the ballparks these days. Just 16 years ago, the Cleveland Indians were mocked for shuttling relief pitchers around in a Jeep. Today the Baltimore club not only has a golf cart in the shape of a huge Oriole cap but a pretty, broom-wielding...
...down. "We're superfluous," says Arazi, 58, a onetime underground fighter and Ambassador to Cyprus. But he says it with a smile. The Political-Economic Planning Division is actually Israel's antiboycott office, set up eleven years ago to thwart the efforts of 18 Arab countries to choke Israel economically. "The boycott does us infinitesimal harm now," says Arazi. "It is so inefficient and ineffective that we simply don't need this division any more...
...Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect gossip, though. Knef writes as she acts, with reckless vitality, and her book has all the choke-ups, flounderings and magnificent surprises of a great tirade...
...grim game of surveillance is played in dead earnest. Both sides are particularly vigilant for submarines, which are difficult to detect in the shallow waters where thermal layers and the screws of some 2,000 merchantmen on any day distort sound. The watch is most intense at six main "choke points," or "ticket gates," as Admiral Kidd calls them, through which maneuvering submarines must pass. These are Gibraltar, the sea south of Sardinia and Sicily, and the areas between Crete and Greece, Crete and North Africa, and Crete and Turkey. Both sides keep watch on the choke points...
...suburbs have proved to be a worthy foil. They are full of nouveaux riches because the country is newly rich. The size of the average car has doubled in ten years; powerboats on trailers choke carports. There are sculptured gnomes on lawns, and almost every front door has a "feature" such as a horseshoe knocker or a flock of stained-glass ducks in flight...