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...Orioles are no less myopic than the other American League teams that have been chasing the phantom fastballs of Vida (as in Ida) Blue (as in lightning). After losing the season opener to the Washington Senators, he won ten games in a row and became a kind of fireballing folk hero. When he posted victory No. 11 against the New York Yankees, the largest crowd to see a night game in Yankee Stadium in three years turned out for what was billed as "Blue Tuesday." Five days later, Blue won No. 12 in Washington before 40,246 fans, the Senators...
Last week Vida (as in Ida) Blue (as in streak) set down the world champion Baltimore Orioles with four hits to register his eighth straight victory, against one defeat. He now leads the American League in earned-run average (1.01), strikeouts (78), shutouts (4) and complete games (8). His approach is devastatingly simple: "I blow them down"-meaning he pitches fastballs 80% of the time. "I don't try to finesse a batter," he says. "I just try to hit the corners or jam a guy and break his bat. I enjoy breaking...
...ones who listened to and believed the Scripture lessons about helping each other and rejecting materialism. They learned the satisfaction of personal excellence and leading others. They are all now on the threshold of an adventure that not even they imagined back in Mitchell, Doland, Shirkieville, Everett, Rumford and Ida Grove...
Outside their own movies, however, even this formidable trio has had little effect; where the game really counts-producing or directing-the female ranks are thin indeed. Lillian Gish directed one film ( Remodeling Her Husband, 1921), and Ida Lupino has half a dozen films to her some-what dubious credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood...
...refusing to hire Mrs. Ida Phillips as an assembly-line trainee in Orlando, Fla., the Martin Marietta Corp. explained that it did employ women, but not mothers of preschool-age children, presumably because of absenteeism. Last week, in its first such ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that the company's policy violated the sex-equality provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The court gave Martin Marietta one out: it can still try to prove that women like Mrs. Phillips are less able to do the job than men who have equally young children. Only in that case...