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...outfield if a runner has already scored and there is a chance that another base runner may be cut down. He raised to an art the hit-and-run play, in which the runner breaks for the next base as the pitch is thrown, while the batter tries to confound the defense by hitting the ball just behind him. In short, he helped make baseball a chess game based on probabilities; its rowdy practitioners he molded into skilled but highly disciplined pawns...
...first glance Judge Burger would seem an inappropriate Chief Justice for the possibly turbulent decade of the '70s. He is neither a simple nor an obvious man, however, and may very well confound both critics and friends. Significantly, perhaps, the decision he is most proud of affirmed those very citizen rights that Westin noted. When the Federal Communications Commission turned down a complaint by a group of blacks against a Mississippi radio station that they charged was racist, Burger, speaking for his court, affirmed the citizens' rights to challenge the FCC's renewal of a license. His decision, says...
SUCH new capitalist slogans might confound a Karl Marx, but U.S. business knows what it is doing. It is trying to appeal to June graduates, and the traditional come-ons no longer work so well. Good money? They have enough, thank you. Special training? They have had all they want-on campus. An esteemed place in society? Many are not sure, or so they say, that they want to belong to this society...
Futile Talks. In both Paris and Viet Nam, Communist actions last week served to confound optimists and pessimists alike. In a swampy paddyfield 50 miles northwest of Saigon, five unarmed American officers faced Viet Cong envoys dressed in grubby khakis during a 24-hour Christmas Day truce. Their futile talks, lasting two hours and 22 minutes, were supposed to deal with the release of three G.I.s. The Communists, who met with the Americans beneath a Viet Cong flag, seemed principally concerned with obtaining some form of U.S. recognition of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong...
...running mate, and a significant question now is how much Johnson can and will help Humphrey grab the highest rung. No one in Washington doubts that Johnson would welcome Humphrey's accession ?if for no other reason than to vindicate his own Administration's record and to confound his chief tormentor, Kennedy...