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Thus ended the decisive phase of the decisive Battle of Midway. For two more days Yamamoto planned samurai slashes with his battleships against the U.S. carriers, but he had lost his air power and he could not connect. Raymond Spruance, with Enterprise and Hornet, badgered Japanese surface vessels, sank a cruiser, but he dared not get too close to the outsize guns of the Japanese battle force or the land-based Japanese bombers on Wake Island (a trap Yamamoto hoped to the end that Spruance would fall into). The central fact was that without naval air power Yamamoto had lost...
...country. All season long he has been scrapping with Wilt Chamberlain and Chet Forte for big-college scoring honors, while his exasperated coach keeps urging him to shoot more often. But Grady prefers to feed the ball to his teammates. When he does decide to cut loose, he can connect from outside as well as from under-the-basket melees...
...there are several factors inherent in the very nature of televised teaching which may limit its applicability. The chief of these is undoubtedly the fact that the "remoteness" of students reduces the possibility of teacher-student interaction. Although microphones can be set up to connect the viewing rooms with the originating room, it is obviously much more difficult for a student to ask a question than if he were in the same room as the professor...
Apparently spurred on by a menace to his own home, Vellucci said he might bring the matter up at today's meeting of the City Council. His action came after the State had revealed its proposed routes for a new 'inner belt" highway designed to connect Route 2 with the Northeast Expressway...
Outside World. Onstage or off, Hackett has the wide-eyed responses of a small boy. When he picks up a phone, pudgy fingers aflutter, he stretches an inquiring eye, screws up his brow, puckers the right corner of his rubbery mouth and startles the operator with Broadwayese: "Connect me to de outside woirld!" Or again, he leaps from a chair and plunges into a routine as ad-libbed as most of his acts. "They used to say whenever someone turned on a light, I started performing...