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Milton Eisenhower and Eleanor Roosevelt turned down the invitation immediately. The committee then wired Castro: "The committee does not believe that the interests either of the prisoners involved or of Cuba's need for raising agricultural production can be best served by a propaganda duel through an exchange of cables." The committee was prepared to ship 100 tractors to Castro within two weeks, with other lots of 100 to follow. Neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Milton Eisenhower would go to Havana -but the committee had in mind sending six U.S. engineers and farm experts to complete negotiations. And, following...
...game was a real pitchers' duel between Kelly and the Crimson's Tom Boone. The Yalie gave up but three hits, and was only in trouble in the seventh, when he loaded the bases on a walk, hit, and an error. He then struck out Dick Diehi on three pitches to end the threat...
...prospect of a dramatic, two-man duel for the richest prize in golf (winner's share: $20,000) brought 150,000 fans to the dogwood-dotted Augusta course. And the gallery got its duel. On the murky first day, Palmer fired a fine 68; Player hung on with a 69. On the sunbaked second day, they swapped scores, and Player narrowly missed a hole in one when his tee shot soared over the creek in front of the par-three 12th hole, landed squarely in the cup and ricocheted 15 ft. away. At the halfway point, Palmer and Player...
Intimate Enmity. The earliest work in the volume, dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first...
...dismay of the crowd, the individual medley duel between Kaufmann and Bulldog Dave Burgess--potentially the most exciting race of the day--didn't come off, as Kaufmann was needed for both relays and the backstroke...