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...local level" during the offensive. Other Americans were less sanguine, pointing out that democracy in South Viet Nam has usually been mere window dressing for the benefit of Westerners. All Thieu has done now, said one Foreign Service officer at the U.S. embassy in Saigon, is to "take the glove off the iron fist...
...yards apart and take turns hurling a Pro Model Frisbee so hard, or on so tricky a trajectory, that no opponent can make a clean one-handed grab. It sounds easy, but catching the acrobatic platter can be as difficult as catching Vida Blue fastballs without a glove. Points are awarded to the throwing team if the receivers muff a catch, and to the receiving team if a throw goes too wide or too high. The first team to score 21 points wins. Desperate lunges, volleyball-style tips to keep the darting disk in play, skinned knees, mashed fingers...
...fact, injuries are as endemic to catching as they are to pro-football line-backing. Take the Detroit Tigers' Bill Freehan, for example. Five times a winner of the Golden Glove award and eight times the American League's All-Star catcher, he labored for several years in serious pain until an operation fused his detached vertebrae. Just as he was getting back into form this year, he broke his thumb. Cleveland's Ray Fosse broke the index finger of his right hand three years in a row, and smashed his shoulder in a collision with Cincinnati...
...older Hundley, Bench switched to a hinged catcher's mitt that enabled him to snare a pitch with one hand and thus keep his right hand free -from harm, as well as to throw more quickly. Then he practiced for hour upon hour transferring the ball swiftly from glove to throwing hand while still in the crouch, always making sure that he grasped the ball exactly across the seams so that his pegs to second and third never curved or faded. "I don't even think about it now," he says. "No matter what way the ball comes...
...Saturday the Tigers had pulled out all the stops only to lose two one-run games to Cornell, forcing coach Ed Donovan to start an untried sophomore. Harvard scored two runs in the first when Stoekel doubled down the left field line and Thomas tripled off the centerfielder's glove after Barbiaux had reached on an error...