Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things got so bad during the season that the Murphys were getting anonymous phone calls from adults. "They wanted to know what we meant by letting our boy pitch like that," says Murph's mother. "They said he was too big to throw at their boys." The son of an oil wholesaler who was once a semi-pro pitcher, Murph himself explains: "I just throw as hard as I can. I figure if I let up, someone might hit it." And being hit is the one thing Murph has not been able to stand since he pitched his first...
...sounds like a lightning bolt is going off in the next room," says one worker. The building shakes, but researchers at Washington's Naval Research Laboratory hardly look up. They know it's only dynamic Alan Kolb, 30, at work on his thermonuclear experiment...
...help it ride over the orchestra, rarely manage to synchronize her song with the "singer" on the screen. The offbeat result helps the audience identify Lata. And in Indian movies (TIME, Jan. 5)-three-hour, syrupy soap operas relieved by interludes of pop music-the audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects, and her popularity is such that she never changes her soft tone .or lilting style to fit the character on the screen. The effect is as if Doris...
...Council. They look with suspicion on the Protestant passion for missions, which they see as a potential peril to themselves, are wary of the proposed merger of the World Council and the International Missionary Council. Said Alexandria's Metropolitan Parthenios of Carthage: "Go slow. I don't know why I fear this, but I fear...
...ridicule it as "bourgeois decadency"; concerts are nonexistent and nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and sale of U.S. jazz records is taboo. But last week two topflight U.S. Negro jazzmen just back from a month-long trip behind the Iron Curtain had news that the Russians not only know all about U.S. jazz, but play it with fervor whenever Big Brother is not looking. Jazz Pianist Dwike Mitchell, 29, and Bassman Willie Ruff, 28, came home amazed: "They have a real feel for our music...