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Scrupulously Formal. A witty career diplomat who has served as the U.S. ambassador in Yugoslavia and Portugal, Elbrick had been a hit with Brazilians almost from the moment he arrived on July 8. While maintaining scrupulously formal relations with the military regime, he mixed enthusiastically among the civilian population. One evening he and his wife danced past midnight at a party with Brazilians from Rio's ramshackle favelas. After the murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in a kidnap attempt in "Guatemala a year ago, Elbrick's predecessor, John Tuthill, kept a bodyguard and frequently changed cars...
...their political campaigns, the Germans prefer the blitzkrieg to the protracted siege. Thus, though Bundestag elections are scheduled for Sept. 28, it was not until two weeks ago that West German politicians began to hit the hustings. When they did, they often found that a determined besieger had got there before them. For 20 weeks, Author Günter Grass, Germany's best-known living novelist, has been conducting a one-man political expedition that has already covered 14,250 miles and 92 cities...
...front office had developed a five-club farm system and hired a covey of scouts to prowl school stadiums and the American Legion circuit in search of promising talent. The scouting system sometimes flopped. In 1966 the Mets drafted as their first choice Catcher Steve Chilcott, passing up hard-hitting Reggie Jackson. Chilcott has never played a major league game, while Jackson?who has already hit 45 home runs for Oakland this season?is developing into one of baseball's great sluggers. Sometimes, though, the Mets had better luck. That same year, for example, they picked up a handsome young...
...McGraw arrived in Baltimore to play the infield for the old Orioles. He was small (5 ft. 6½ in.), young (18), and a country boy from upstate New York. At that time, the basis of baseball strategy was simply to hit the ball as far as possible. Young McGraw was brash enough and bright enough to see that the game should be infinitely more complex than that, and soon he was all but running the team. By 1894, Oriole baseball flourished as "a. combination of hostility, imagination, speed and piracy...
McGraw perfected what is now a commonplace baseball device: the cutoff throw, whereby an infielder checks the throw from the outfield if a runner has already scored and there is a chance that another base runner may be cut down. He raised to an art the hit-and-run play, in which the runner breaks for the next base as the pitch is thrown, while the batter tries to confound the defense by hitting the ball just behind him. In short, he helped make baseball a chess game based on probabilities; its rowdy practitioners he molded into skilled but highly...