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...scored so many hits on Navy planes with .30-and .50-cal. ammunition that Navy pilots were calling him "Annie Oakley." Navy orders: "Don't shoot back." What if Navy planes got shot down? Said a Sixth Fleet air officer: "I guess we would order them to fly higher...
Reciprocal Trade. Before passing the Administration bill by a resounding vote of 72 to 16, the Senate knocked out the Senate Finance Committee's most damaging piece of butcherwork: a provision that the President may not overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back him up (TIME, July 21). Co-sponsors of the amendment to undo the Finance Committee damage: Majority Leader Johnson and California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, joining forces in an overwhelming coalition. "This was not a party matter," said Johnson. "This was Congress standing there...
Wild Man. Duren himself has been accused of deliberately throwing at batters and purposely firing wild warmup pitches to discourage batters from digging in at the plate. Duren denies both charges, explains: "The mound on the field is different-higher-than the warmup slab in the bullpen. I believe in getting adjusted to it by throwing as hard as I can, and sometimes it goes wild." The record shows that the brown-eyed fastballer is no scatter-arm pitcher. He has walked only 24 batters this season, hit only two. Says Detroit's Kaline: "Maybe he was wild once...
...this year there have been 913 cases of polio reported, as against 1,979 at this time last year. But 438 of this year's cases have been specified as paralytic, only 317 nonparalytic (the rest are unspecified). Inexplicably, out of a hearteningly smaller total of cases, a higher proportion are paralytic: 58% as against 46%. Nobody knows the reason for this. Some 70 million Americans have now been vaccinated (50 million with three shots); since some do not respond to the vaccine and develop no immunity, there is a widening pool of vaccinated subjects who may still...
...Afternoon Lecture Series, Burr Hall, Robert H. Halsey, "English Higher Education...