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...from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion, 49; his mother's, 54), drew a 20-day jail sentence and a chance to work out his time on the ball field. For every...
...President Frank Bartholomew about how SAC's bombers had been launched "not once, not twice, but many times," toward "an enemy target," before recall by SAC's Fail Safe safety procedures (see next page). The story was old hat, but its timing was right for Gromyko to latch onto. Said Gromyko: "The government of the U.S.S.R. demands an immediate end to the practice...
...been mauled, and the carrier Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch on to the one little triumph of Jimmy Doolittle's 30 seconds over Tokyo...
...other hand, said Dr. Hodges, medicine has a legitimate complaint about premature reporting. "Newspapers latch on to a morsel of partly cooked medical news and serve it up to the reading public in its raw state. Your new 'cancer cure' may be simply a study of enzymatic action on malignant cells until the eager-beaver writer gets wind of it. By the time he tries to present you to the readers as a latter-day Pasteur, your medical society is ready to drum you out as a snake oil salesman...
...scoop is made for bait. On the ledges of the overhanging rocks, the huge iguana rustle, and at night a volcano spews its fairy fires. Day after day no fish, and days become weeks. The ship sets course for Peru, and there, after 13 weeks at sea, the big latch is made at last...