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...break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much in the postwar years - in a striking parallel to the then-booming Japanese economy - that Shoriki was talking up an eventual Real World Series with the American champions. Although Nagashima was interested in the Dodger offer, duty to team...
When I was 20, I lived in Paris in an apartment in the fifth arrondissement. Near my flat was a hobby shop specializing in military miniatures. There was one wall of ship models, and among them were a few Tamiya Waterlines, noticeably more expensive than the English and French kits. I bought one, and every afternoon for about a week I sat at my little typing table and assembled the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer. It was a tiny little ship, no longer than a pencil and no wider than my thumb. But it was as fine and filigreed...
...into the whole area of transportation fuels and gasoline, rising prices there. One of our big problems is we haven't built any new refineries in this country for 25 years, and refineries are running flat out at maximum capacity and having to put a lot of complex additives into the product in order to meet various clean air requirements. That combination of things, our desire to have a good clean environment but also to meet those needs for fuel, comes back again to the infrastructure that's available and the capacity of those refineries. We're talking about energy...
...simple: collections of open jars and pitchers rest innocuously on top of non-descript tables. The visual confection normally found in still lifes—reflective sparkles on glass, pastel groups of flowers or dew on fruit—is nowhere to be found. Instead objects are simplified into flat shapes. A cup is represented through the simple shape of a cylinder rimmed with shadow, while a drape of fabric becomes little more than a hard-edged line...
...goes downhill from there. By the halfway point (13.1 miles), I’m still on track for my four-hour finish, having run the first half in two hours flat...