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...fast ball is generally conceded to be slower than the 98.6 m.p.h. pitch that made Feller famous, and his curve doesn't bend so sharply. But he manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell in the All-Star game...
...little rivers that feed the Great Lakes, an evil invader was swarming last week by the slithering thousands: the sea lamprey. It looks like a mottled, bluish eel, but instead of a proper mouth it has a round sucker, like the rubber gadget that plumbers use to unplug drains. Inside the rim are rows of small teeth. When a hungry lamprey spies a fish, it darts to the fish's side. The sucker's teeth dig in and get a firm grip. Then the lamprey worries a hole in the fish with a file-like tongue and sucks...
There had never been anything quite like it in the aviation industry. The first to talk was Jack Frye, the burly, kinky-haired president of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. Said he: TWA has spent $30,000,000 to buy 36 Constellations, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s eel-sleek, 340-mile-an-hour airliner...
...core idea has its roots deep in the problems of U.S. democracy. In the most complex technical-industrial society of all time, American learning has spread out to encompass everything from electronics to eel husbandry-and the common body of tradition and culture that once bound men together is by & large getting a cursory dismissal as "useless" and "impractical...
...minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness of a wet eel...