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...Santos-Buch's double and Kelley's 3-for-5 performance extended their hitting streaks to ten and nine games, respectively. at Soldiers Field BOSTON COLLEGE AB R H BI Follen cf 4 0 1 1 Mayock lf 4 0 0 0 Casey rf-c 4 0 0 0 Ferro ph 1 0 0 0 Stewart 1 b 4 1 2 1 Tillett dh-p 2 1 0 0 Gallagher p-dh 0 0 0 0 Markell p-dh 0 0 0 0 Craft ph 1 0 0 0 Dachos c 2 1 0 0 Gilbody...
...haul is accumulated, it is blown up on Omaha after the tide has come in. At Arromanches-les-Bains, snuggled between yellowish cliffs, pony-drawn buggies roll along the beach to show tourists the town's main attraction: Port Winston, the Allies' huge artificial harbor of 115 ferro-concrete caissons, each weighing 6,000 tons. Through Winston the Allies funneled 2,500,000 troops, half a million vehicles and 4,000,000 tons of supplies in the eight months after Dday. Only 40 of the caissons jut above the water now, roosting places for seagulls and shadow sanctuaries...
...native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates into "Iron Bottom...
...actually turned out to be an important steady ing influence during times of confusion in Italian politics. Hence, when President Antonio Segni was felled by a cerebral stroke last August, Italians were concerned not only for the frail, oft-ailing Segni, whom they had long affectionately called malato di ferro -"the iron invalid" - but for their nation as well...
...company has diversified into chemicals, fiber glass and heating units, but frit still accounts for 45% of its sales. Though enamel has largely disappeared from pots and pans, and stoves are often made of stainless steel nowadays, Ferro has made up for such losses by aggressively seeking out new uses for frit. The material is now used on classroom chalkboards, automobile mufflers and jet-engine afterburners. Ferro also turns out frit-based golf-hole markers and road markers, is developing a fertilizer business in which it mixes frit with zinc, boron and molybdenum. Porcelain enamel "skin" sections are hanging...