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...Amended Senator Homer Capehart's standby controls bill, gave Congress, not the President, the power to throw the switch on controls in case of a grave national emergency, then passed the bill and sent it on to the House...
...Homer Earl Capehart, the onetime phonograph maker from Indianapolis, was for years a target for the bitter sneers of liberals and laborites from both major parties. Last week the old critics were cheering Homer Capehart while ranged against him were such old-time friends as the National Association of Manufacturers and Robert Alphonso Taft. The issue, that brought about this strange shift of forces: Republican Senator Capehart's bill to provide standby controls on prices, wages and rents...
...Congress I have opposed giving the President the power to declare emergencies, and I am just as much opposed now to giving that power to the present President as I was when Mr. Truman and other Democratic leaders were in control." Looking around at his new friends and foes. Homer Capehart thought it was time to redefine his position. "I am a free enterpriser," he said. "I am so independent as a businessman, and individually, that I do not even like to sleep in a little room; I like to sleep in a big room. I do not want...
Sportswriters agreed. In fact, the records suggested that only the mighty Babe Ruth might ever have hit one higher or farther. Switch Hitter Mantle hit the homer righthanded; but just eight days before, hitting lefthanded, in an exhibition game at Pittsburgh, he had become the third man ever to pole one out of the park over the right-field stands. (The others: Ruth and Ted Beard.) Looking back over his 42 years in baseball, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel said: "Mantle is probably the most powerful switch hitter the game has ever known...
...Toledo last week, a group of U.S. wrestlers strove amain, using some of the classic grips of Homer's time. As in Homer's time, the sweat flowed in streams, even if blood did not. Toledo's heaving modern heroes were competing for titles in a wrestling style new to National A.A.U. competition : Greco-Roman, a modified descendant of the style used by Odysseus and Aias...