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...Used Deals. Other phrases have also lain fallow for decades before being well turned again for a new generation of voters. F.D.R.'s "New Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...
Still, the Tigers keep winning-nine straight games at the season's start, 24 of their last 36. Pitcher Denny Mc-Lain, 24, who wore spectacles last season and lost 16 games while winning 17, has switched to contact lenses. "I'm seeing things I didn't see before," he says, and his record this season shows visible improvement: a league-leading 14-2. The unreliability of Detroit's other front-line pitchers is offset by the strength of its bullpen: among them, Relievers Pat Dobson, Jon Warden, John Killer and Fred Lasher boast a record...
...wasting your time on the major. He's a fighting machine, a soldier's soldier, with no time for weakness." Bing Russell to Jewell Lain in Suicide Battalion...
...Record-American. Constituents rest assured that their representatives are looking out for their best interests in the traffic department. It's pretty cozy, so comfortable in fact that a Vellucci motion to put traffic problems directly under the control of the City Council and the City Manager has lain on the table for over a month. Someday, the Council and the Manager may agree to fire Rudolph; but, even if they do, another man will probably fill his lightning-rod role...
They did, crawling from the rubble of the village or popping out of the Songbo River, where some had lain submerged while breathing through bamboo shoots. In all, 95 surrendered, one of the biggest such catches of the war. A body count turned up another 135 dead, bringing the total to 352 in the 76-hour battle. Allied losses were eight killed and 37 wounded. Among the Communist dead were the commander of the North Vietnamese unit-the 8th Battalion-his executive officer and three company commanders. All told for the week in eastern I Corps, the allies killed...