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Then I was young and foolish, to think that the hoary maxim, "pitching is 75 per cent of the game," was a bunch of . After all, what makes a like a few .300 hitters and muscle-men who can belt a every other game...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Pitching, Attitude-Mire Sox in Ninth | 7/6/1965 | See Source »

...North Viet Nam and nearly doubling its own forces in the south. Most important, Diem's fall brought to an end nearly a decade of political stability in Viet Nam. Was Diem's downfall inevitable or even imperative, the product of immutable historical forces, or merely of foolish diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Undone by a Coup | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...himself appears in his undershirt looking flagrantly virile. When Ramiro proposes to her, she spurns his suggestion as "distasteful." When he rashly tries to force himself upon her one morning, she flees to her confessor, a plain-spoken priest who advises Tula to stop being proud and foolish: "You do his laundry, you make his bed. It's only natural that he wants to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Virgin's Fury | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

Moll's pals are as colorful a lot of rogues, ruffians and lairdly wenchers as an ambitious servant girl could wish. In the country, after her master's elder son (Daniel Massey) has blithely ruined her, she marries his foolish brother and is promptly widowed. En route to London, she outwits a dashing highwayman (Richard Johnson) and meets her husband-to-be, George Sanders, who steals the show as a passionate Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Easy Was a Lady | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...perhaps due to Chinese design. As well as anyone in the West, Peking knows the value of psychological warfare. But the Chinese would be foolish to commit themselves to a major ground war against the U.S. at this time. Said one Asia expert: "The benefits to China would be nil; they are now getting all of the advantages [from Viet Nam] with no real risks." And, since it will be at least five years before even the primitive 20-kiloton package exploded at Lop Nor can be delivered onto global targets, it seemed likely that the current Chinese thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Firecracker No. 2 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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