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Harvey Friedman, who threw a 3-0 shut-out against M.I.T. Tuesday, leads the pitching staff. He allowed only four hits, while no M.I.T. batter reached third base. Though mainly a "junk pitcher" he has a fast ball that looks very quick after a series of slow curves. Opposed to the tradition of wild lefties, Friedman has no trouble getting the ball over the plate...
...Shopen fumed: "Painting has given way to plastering, sewing and pasting . . . Fastened upon the canvas are such 'found objects' as cheesecloth, string, mud, sand, scraps of cardboard, fragments of mirrors, broken bottles and tennis shoes . . . Sculpture has given way to constructions where 'found objects' of junk yards are welded together in fantastic arrangements with droolings of solder . . . Work dealing with decay, destruction, fragmentation, explosions and torture are frequent. Apparently it is stylish to make a negative rather than an affirmative statement about life-and easier . . . Chicago is not that sick...
...postman was scarcely out of the door today when we threw away 43 pieces of bulk-rate mail. Increasing the postal rates on this bothersome junk would help our postmen and, most of all, the Post Office Department. They have to handle it and run up a deficit doing it. But this could never happen, since it would mean increasing rates on magazines and newspapers...
...machines get more complicated, quick-acting and violent, they are more prone to self-destruction if something goes wrong. Some nuclear reactors, for instance, can turn into radioactive junk in a fraction of a second. To avoid such misadventures, most modern mechanical and electronic systems are equipped with built-in monitors that watch their operation and shut them down promptly at the first sign of trouble. But if a vacuum tube or relay in the monitor fails, the main machine is like a building whose night watchman has dropped dead. Trouble can start and get out of hand with...
Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...