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There was nothing surprising about the scores; the New York Yankees were supposed to beat their kissin' cousins, the Kansas City Athletics-even if the A's were in second place. Still, there was something special about the doubleheader that dragged through a damp afternoon and evening at Yankee Stadium last week. For those two games told the story of American League baseball in the summer of 1958: when Yankee hitters were hot, their pitchers held off the opposition and they breezed home (10-2). When Yankee hitters were helpless, their pitchers held off the opposition and they...
Mansley (gray homburg protected by black umbrella) watched wordless as sundry crews in sweat shirts tried with damp success to pull canvas canopies over their partitions...
...pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
...refused to give the hiding place of Yacef Saadi. For the next 17 days she was in the hands of the French paratroops. In her testimony later, Djamila said she was beaten repeatedly. Djamila testified: "They stripped me naked and tied me on a bench, taking care to put damp cloths under the cords that bound me. They then fixed electric contacts to my sexual organs, my ears, my mouth, the palms of my hands, my nipples, and my forehead. At 3 in the morning I fainted. Later, I became delirious. Every time, while one of the paratroopers worked...
...table was terribly untidy. Breadcrumbs soaked in the damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us. We even leaned on it, growing callous, and delicately picked out of the wreckage the bare essentials. the bitter wine that was needed to keep the evening going...