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...either side of old (84) Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, and the President satisfied tradition by throwing out the first ball of the season.- On his left hand, he wore a fielder's mitt which Griffith handed him. Ike, using an odd type of knuckle grip, threw the ball to Yankee Pitcher Johnny Sain so quickly that some photographers missed it. "One more," they cried, and Ike obliged with a fast one to Rookie Gonzalo Naranjo. "Throw it back," called the President, and Naranjo did. Then, feeling very pleased with himself, Ike pitched the ball once more...
...Europe," Dulles concluded, "Soviet Russia holds its grip on Eastern Germany and upon Austria and maneuvers recklessly to prevent reconciliation between Germany and France. In Asia, the whole area from Japan and Korea to Southeast Asia is troubled by Communist efforts at penetration . . . There is only one defense-a defense compounded of eternal vigilance, sound policies and high courage. The U.S. is a member of a goodly company who have in the past stood together in the face of great peril and have overcome it. If we are true to that past, we can face the future with hope...
...Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror of the Cuban forests [which] possesses the power ... to break the spine . . . with a single blow of its mandibles...
...until dark, then sped to the home of old Aly Maher, four times a Premier and a master of Egypt's political meteorology, to talk some more. Late that night, Aly Maher called in the press and announced that Nasser and his Revolutionary Command Council were relaxing their grip and would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election of a 250-man Constituent Assembly; in July, an Assembly meeting to ratify a new constitution; by January 1956, free elections for a new democratic Parliament. The R.C.C. said it will then fade away...
...Harris ran into stormy weather with the board. About 25% of Northwest's common stock is owned by Wertheim & Co., or held for customers of two New York brokerage firms, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. They have a tight grip on the board. But Harris felt they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year...