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...home runs; two days later the musclemen in both leagues hit a record 46 homers. And along with the rain of homers there has been a positive cloudburst of singles, doubles and triples. In the first six weeks of the season, A.L. batters hit at a .253 clip, a 13-point increase over the same period last year. Says St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst: "I can't decide if the ball is more alive or people are getting stronger. All I know is that the baseball flies...
...justice, in other words, can be counted on to be arbitrary, brutal and repressive, and Robert Sherill does not have to play with hypothetical cases to prove it. His cleverly titled new book. Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music, relates at a quick, journalistic clip enough examples of judicial miscarriage to confirm anyone's worst fears. The Washington editor of The Nation. Sherill is more thought-provoking than thoughtful in this fast-reading study of the Armed Forces' system of justice. But if the volume turns up few surprises, it conveys much that is worth...
Kranz, a crew-cut and clip-voiced former test pilot, was just winding up his ten-hour stint with his "white team" of flight controllers when the first hint of trouble came from 205,000 miles away in space. Quickly responding, he made the first of the long night's many important decisions, ordering the astronauts to turn off a fuel cell, check their thruster rockets, and power down the guidance and navigation systems. Though he may well have anticipated the worst, Kranz never faltered or showed signs of panic. "We've got a bad situation...
...large roadside billboards just inside the county lines north and south of town guard the approach to Ludowici. Placed there by Governor Lester Maddox two weeks ago, they warn approaching motorists of "speed traps" and "clip joints" in large black letters on a white background. State Trooper Thomas Randall sits in his blue Chevrolet guarding the southernmost sign against Ludowici's irate citizens. Occasionally Randall puts aside his Playboy and climbs out to chat with a tourist, such as H.E. Phillips from Beaufort, S.C. "I've heard about this place in the state of Washington," says Phillips, snapping...
...Smith. As Masha, flinging herself into the brief, doomed adulterous affair with Colonel Vershinin (Robert Stephens), she is the incandescent epitome of all women in love. Here is a Hedda Gabler of a Russian provincial town, a woman of fire, intelligence, gravity and spirit, married to a bureaucratic paper clip of a man who bores her to headaches rather than tears. Impelled to passion with a man who must leave her, she conveys a heartrending gallantry. Perhaps the saddest fate of a great playwright is not to live to see performances like this...