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...platform jutting from a sheer, null gorge in the Zagros Mountains, the Shah of Iran picked up a ceremonial telephone and spoke an order. Seconds later, tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...
...Though Dizzy Dean is not on the list ("He didn't pitch long enough"), he obviously rated a favored spot in Rice's heart. After reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark hog callers won 49 games for the St. Louis Cardinals. Paul was lustily swigging a bottle of pop when the train roared into a long tunnel. "Diz," exclaimed Paul. "You tried any of this stuff?" "Just fixin' to," replied Diz...
...Dizzy") Dean, 42, a pitcher who knew no peer (and was the first to admit it) during the rowdy days of the famed St. Louis Cardinal "Gas House Gang" in the '30s. The last pitcher in either league to win 30 games in one season (1934), Ol' Diz also holds the National League strike-out record (17 in one game), wound up his flamboyant career with 150 victories, 83 losses. After his pitching days were cut short by an injury in 1937, Diz turned to sports announcing, enriched the language with such phrases as "slud" and "hitterish...
...case of a Russian attack on Turkey, the best invasion routes lead through Kurdistan, at Maku in Iran and Ruwan-diz in Iraq...
...twice all evening. Fred Walther riding one of the horses bareback on the journey home (and they only serve soft drinks at Norumbega). Colonel Cornelius and Monsieur Bland piloting two of the hayracks homeward. The Colonel made the trip without, a mishap, but Lou ran into difficulties. See "Diz" Diano for the full story on how Lou dropped the reins, and how the horse made his way across the road, with the wagon ending up in a ditch while confusion reigned and Don Brown promised, "If I come out of this alive, I'll never touch the stuff again...