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...swaggering 29-year-old lieutenant colonel, he swept his 37th Tank Battalion through Normandy, sealing off the peninsula in the eleven days after Dday. In his dramatic breakthrough to relieve Bastogne and his near legendary dash across the Rhine, "Abe" Abrams terrified the enemy as a daring tactician who relied on swift movement and overpowering violence. He believed in the shock value of mass attack combined with an awesome firepower that approached overkill. A captured German document said, somewhat hysterically, that Abrams' forces were totally made up of men who had been born out of wedlock or killed their...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...
...when Ty Cobb was able to steal only nine bases in a season and Wills had slowed down to 52, Brock looks as streamlined as he did a decade ago. He stands 5 ft. 11 in. and weighs a trim 170 lbs. Stop watches have clocked his dash from first to second at 3.5 sec., half a second better than the average baserunner. It is a crucial fraction. "It takes a pitcher an average of eight-tenths of a second to deliver the ball from a set position," explains the analytical Brock. "Add to that the time it takes...
...three for a hurler who pauses long in the set position or one-two-three for someone faster. On three, which should be the precise moment the pitcher has committed himself to throw home, Brock starts his dash...
...Stratford company, if it has not quite triumphed, has brought its subject matter to a worthy draw. It has avoided embarrassment - a small miracle in itself. The cast is good-looking in its various bathing costumes. A certain epic dash fills the air. What more could Shakespeare and that other scribbler...