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...Seltzer can also claim much of the credit for Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze's successful run for mayor as an insurgent in 1953. For all that. "Mr. Cleveland." as Seltzer is fond of being called, is not sitting back. The poststrike Press sported a clutch of new columnists, a redesigned woman's page and more sports coverage...
...line drive hit Spahn squarely in the belly. He staggered and fell. Somehow he picked up the ball and threw Musial out. He then paused briefly to catch his breath-and went on to beat Musial and the Cardinals, 4-3, driving in the winning run himself with a clutch single...
...sounds perfectly insufferable. David and Liz are newlyweds and weanling artists. In full flight from the soft clutch of uptown parental comfort, the two make their nest in an industrial loft in lower Manhattan. After a series of predictable experiences-first night, first fight, first child-they are drawn back to the kind of cozy middle-class coop they flew in the first place...
...field events--the catapult (for merly the pole vault) and the high jump--Harvard will be pressed to score at all. However, Spitzberg, who has shown himself capable of clutch performances in the past, could gain points in the high jump...
...benevolent dictatorship" that would attempt to stabilize the economy and "normalize" the political situation. Though his forces were small-25,000 navymen and 17,000 marines, compared with 87,000 men in the army and 22,000 in the air force-Admiral Palma enlisted the support of a clutch of retired army officers, hoping that they would encourage army and air force units to come over. He was also pledged help from 1,000 to 1,500 "civilian commandos," who devised a chilling plan to assassinate 15 top officers in the enemy camp...