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When the history of the 20th century is written, last week is likely to prove one of its watersheds. For in the seven days which spanned 1958 and 1959, Western Europe began to flex its economic muscles for the first time in a decade, and took its biggest step toward unity since the death of Charlemagne 1,145 years...
Without Big Klu to flex his muscles and frighten opposing pitchers, every club in the league picked the Redlegs as roundheeled patsies. They had not figured on Birdie Tebbetts. This season's success is not so much a matter of tactics on the field as it is a triumph of Tebbetts' psychology in the clubhouse. Maybe off the diamond the Redlegs will never learn their manager's supreme self-confidence, the positive faith that no man is his superior; maybe some of them sometimes settle for second best-say, in arguments with their wives...
Right near the top of the list we'll put down Success for The Teams, underlining a win over Yale in all departments, particularly swimming. But there'll be no requests for undefeated seasons. How then could the coach flex his check muscles and mutter something about "Just wait till next year"? And with solid wins what would happen to the grand old phrase of "...not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game...
...first Russo-American athletic contest since the end of World War II gave six U.S. musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells...
When Fleet Street's publishers sat down with the E.T.U.-A.E.U. to try to end the strike, they found that the union bargainers were almost all Communist Party members. While wages were an issue, there was no doubt that the Communists were taking the opportunity to flex their muscles, show the public that they could hit where it would hurt most...