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Hatfield's announcement of candida cy last week was in character. After his publicity men had put out the long-expected word via press release and recorded radio and TV spots, Hatfield drove to the farm community of Silverton (pop. 3,967), where 16 years earlier he had made his first campaign speech as a candidate for the state legislature. He held no formal press conference, went instead to a Kiwanis luncheon, where he barely mentioned his Senate candidacy. "I shall seek," his press release said, "to be a Senator of all the people." The announcement carried no indication...
...young in their place. In times when life as well as education was far shorter than today, they often made history at an age when the modern young are still working for their degrees; Edward the Black Prince was 16 when he won the battle of Crécy, Joan of Arc was 17 when she took Orléans from the English, and Ivan the Terrible was the same age when he hounded the boyars to death and had himself crowned czar. But for ordinary people, particularly under the long-prevalent guild system of apprentices and journeymen, life...
...drama remains doggedly minor because Writer-Director Cy Endfield too often concentrates on the man-womanman conflict, which is sexier but not so interesting finally as the elemental battle for survival. In Actor Whitman's display of beefcake villainy, muscles are defined more clearly than motivation or character. The threat of death from heat and starvation seems remote when Susannah lazes by a fresh-water pool while Whitman strides forth fully armed, bagging big and small game with reassuring regularity. Kalahari is most effective when it shows men pushed to the last extremity, as in the brutal spectacle...
...Sandy Koufax by 47 points in the balloting among baseball writers; at Boston. Mays batted .317, hit 52 homers and drove in 112 runs for the second-place San Francisco Giants. Koufax, who hurled the Dodgers to the pennant and victory in the World Series, had already won the Cy Young award as the major leagues' best pitcher; two sportswriters left him off their ballots entirely, apparently deciding that he had received enough recognition...
...record and moved into a tie (360 victories) with Kid Nichols as the sixth most successful pitcher in baseball history. Now he wanted to overtake Jim Galvin at 365 and then to pass Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander (both 373), leaving only Walter Johnson (416) and Cy Young (511) ahead of him as the record holders...