Word: hinting
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...Lopez at Cleveland, "Al could write the text on the mechanics of pitching. Why you use a certain pitch. When you use it. What pitch should follow another. Why it should follow." Lopez often signals for specific pitches himself, wastes no time yanking his starters at the first hint of trouble. In one game last year, Chicago's Joe Horlen had a four-hit shutout going after seven innings. "Good job," said Lopez, and packed him off to the showers. He called in Gary Peters to pitch the eighth inning, then sent for Wilhelm...
...there just the hint of a double chin? It wouldn't be surprising, for Monaco's Princess Grace is 35. But even when Mom becomes a full-fledged matron catching the more mature gazes, the family will still have a girl to turn younger heads. Arriving in the U.S. for a kinsfolk wedding, eight-year-old Princess Caroline flashed a cool smile of her own, asked, "Mummy, will you let me be an actress when I grow up?" Murmured Mummy, who says she'll never make another film herself, "You're already an actress, darling...
Walt Hewlett will make his spring debut in the two-mile, and, though his erratic tendencies have made him a legend in his own time, his performance today against capable Rick Wilmer should give some hint of what to expect next week...
...power to make any member do anything it does not want to do, such as pay for peacekeeping. And they have a case: the U.N. was conceived as a loose association of sovereign states. But at the same time it also carried the ill-defined hint of being an embryonic world government and the hope that the members would sacrifice their sovereign interests for the sake of international cooperation. That hope, however noble, was premature. Among other realities, it ignored two developments: the cold war and the death of colonialism...
...intense continuing rivalry for control of the Communist camp was most evident in Russia's and China's at tempts to outdo each other in promises of aid to the Communist Viet Cong. After only a hint from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that Moscow might send men to North Viet Nam, Peking came screaming from its corner with promises of its own "volunteers." Brezhnev's Red Square speech, however, was far from an outright pledge of troops, and Peking's promise was just as carefully hedged...