Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year (8-19). This...
...show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms, was barely able to drop his weights and make the surface...
Family Man. Last week's emotional high point came when Jaccoud's wife Erna took the stand to insist that her unfaithful husband was a "devoted, exemplary family man, who saw to it that our children and I lacked nothing." His only flaw: "He did not spend his leisure time with his family." He was far too shy to be a killer, insisted Erna Jaccoud. Under the stress of her testimony, Defendant Jaccoud fainted dead away. After a 15-minute adjournment, the judge asked everyone to do his utmost to "get this painful part of the proceedings over...
...Vrije Volk: "The highest praise can scarcely suffice . . . They have made us aware that along with the harshly materialistic, there is another America." In Braunschweig, West Germany, the Goslarsche Zeitung critic ran out of superlatives: "How can one write criticism when the whole evening was without a flaw?" Acclaim awaited the quartet in small towns as well as big: In Sweden's Malmo (pop. 192,498), they turned down an offer of a three-month teaching contract; in a town in the French Alps they were toasted in champagne by the local chamber music society. Financially, the tour...
...away. It is only after Charley is caught that Gary's book makes a descent into sentiment, coming closer to Dickens than to Evelyn Waugh, who also told (in his hilarious Put Out More Flags) of brattish evacuees on the loose in the English countryside. But the sentimental flaw is minor, and the book makes its point well: adolescence is a chrysalis whose occupant can be hurt, but not helped much, by the world outside...