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...lanky, 6-ft., 3-in. pitcher from Dix Hills, N.Y., felt some pressure last Saturday with several scouts watching. He responded with a perfect game for six and two-thirds innings of the seven inning contest against Trinity...
...minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Otto Dix...
...quintessential Nebraska football player. Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...
...Boston Ballet has, unfortunately, made one mistake in the program. Before Carmina Burana is a disappointing 25-minute Pas de Dix choreographed by George Balanchine. Taken from a full-length ballet called Raymonda, it is supposed to highlight the elegance and precision of classical ballet--a task which, even though accomplished, isn't worth the effort. Traditional, sappy, and restrained, the excerpt is uninspiring and seems to make the dancers less careful about their technique. Although they briefly spice up the atmosphere now and then by switching the dancers to Flamenco style, the general effect is nothing but cute...
...places hit: parts of Miami, Dallas, Detroit, Reno, suburban Philadelphia and a few towns in upstate New York. New Jersey Bell reported 25 acts of sabotage during the first three days of the strike, including a cut cable that disrupted service to a state police barracks and Fort Dix, a major Army base. Though direct evidence linking striking workers to the crimes is scarce, they are naturally the prime suspects. In one case, a striking Southern Bell employee and his grown son were arrested for pulling the wires out of a telephone box in Gainesville...