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Every time varsity baseball coach form Shepard talks about last season, gets a peculiar gleam...
...Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer in the public side had an eye for form. "I wouldn't have minded playing him for a fiver," said...
Dream of Power. The experimental flight at Burlington, Mass., last week was an impressive achievement. Transmitting power by radio waves has long been a gleam in the eyes of electrical engineers, but the process is normally too inefficient for anything except radio and TV communication. Raytheon started years ago to work out an improvement (TIME...
POLITICS Only a few weeks ago, a gleam entered the eyes of congressional Republicans whenever they thought about November elections. They felt certain of winning at least 20 seats away from Democrats, nurtured hopes of gaining the 42 they would need to seize control of the House of Representatives. But as of last week, most Republicans would settle for the 176 seats their party now holds in the 435-member House...
...British Critic V. S. Pritchett in his introduction to this elegantly tailored travel piece. But his offensive eye is piercing. In Madrid, the light has "the radiance of enamel: in the hot months it is pure fire, refined to the incandescence of a furnace, and it is like the gleam of armour in the cold winter." He is fascinated by the Turks' capacity for almost trancelike relaxation. "No one," he says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk; he sits with every inch of his body; his very face sits." In Iran, Pritchett isolates the country...