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Kalmbach asked for a donation of $100,000, Spater continued, and "I was told that contributions of this amount would be regarded as in a special class." American's ex-chairman likened any thought of refusing to cooperate to the terra incognita on ancient mariners' charts, which is filled "with all sorts of fierce-looking creatures." It was not, he explained, so much a matter of what favors a hefty gift might buy as a fear of what might happen to his federally regulated firm if it did not cough up handsomely. Eventually Spater arranged to issue...
Midget. Running through all this are the glories and disasters of the Ruppert Mundys of Port Ruppert, N.J. Smith recalls the Mundys' history, complete with scores from their games with such teams as the Kakoola Reapers, the Acedama Butchers and the Terra Incognita Rustlers. Anyone familiar with the 4-F players of wartime baseball will sympathize with the 1943 Mundys. Their roster of freaks and misfits includes a one-legged catcher; a 14-year-old second baseman; a midget pinch hitter, "a credit to his size," who is reminiscent of the one Bill Veeck fielded with...
Though the U.S. helped open the country to trade in the 19th century and eventually occupied it after a grueling 20th century war, the land of the Rising Sun until lately has largely been terra incognita to Americans. Now historical revisionism, the astounding economic resurgence of the Japanese, and concern for the balance of power in the Far East are combining to change that. The most massive and popular new study is John Toland's The Rising Sun, a detailed, evenhanded chronicle of Japan's road to war and eventual defeat...
...Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a grumpy, mountain-climbing Swiss philosopher who is also one of the world's foremost child psychologists. Few researchers have so meticulously or provocatively mapped that terra incognita, the mental world of children. For 50 years, Piaget, now 73, has been discovering through deceptively simple experiments that children actually have surprisingly intricate thinking skills that adults should learn to appreciate and understand better than they...
...older (and Eastern) conviction that virtue lies in seeking balance with the community on earth and with the universe beyond. Especially in America, where individual courage once tamed the wilderness, pessimists now see an antlike mass society. There is no West to be wild in; the only terra incognita is under water. The plains are paved, farms are corporations, and, with too many of the young, dreams of adventure have been replaced by the haze of pot. Even in war, the brave man is not often truly alone with death. The team supports him, the group succors...