Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were Bauer's Rules of Play-no cute stuff, no tricks, just straightforward baseball. For pitchers: "When I come out to that mound, don't give me a lot of bull; just give me the ball." For outfielders: "Make damn sure you don't miss that cutoff man with your throw." For base runners: "Break up the double play. Go in hard. Make it hurt." Labor-management relations would remain cordial, he said, just so long as the employees remembered their place: "If I'm out somewhere and a player comes...
...base at Guantanamo Bay, Goldwater flailed out at the Johnson Administration: "This is another result of an indecisive foreign policy. Whenever a weaker country thinks it can thumb its nose at a stronger country and get away with it, it is going to do this." Barry called the water cutoff an "atrocity," and offered his own curbstone prescription: "Tell Castro to walk back and turn the water on or we are going to march out with a detachment of marines and turn...
...Hemisphere is intolerable and that he should be ousted-if necessary, even by an invasion of Cuba. But any such effort must be well planned, well timed-and, above all, successful. To urge an impromptu attack because of such a relatively minor irritation as Guantanamo's water-supply cutoff smacks to many of gross irresponsibility...
...worst, the cutoff will cause the Navy moderate inconvenience. Long ago prepared for such a move, the base has a reserve of over 15 million gallons on hand; there is also a special tanker that can convert 100,000 gallons of salt water a day into fresh water. By cutting down use from 2,000,000 gallons a day to 500,000 gallons, Guantanamo can go a month with what it has, and tankers from the U.S. can bring in whatever is needed from then on to make the base permanently self-sufficient. At week's end, President Johnson...
...same time, with consummate gall a government announcement claimed that the U.S. had taken "too literally" Sihanouk's recent decision against accepting further U.S. aid; Washington, went the new complaint, immediately stopped all projects in progress instead of letting the Prince decide the cutoff dates himself. Ordering all U.S. military and economic missions out of the country by Jan. 15, Sihanouk threatened: "We will be happy to break off diplomatic relations with the U.S." The State Department replied by ordering U.S. Ambassador Philip Sprouse back to Washington for "consultations...