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...gets by knowing precisely when to take off-at the instant the pitcher decides to throw to the plate. Most pitchers betray their decision by a subtle shift of their shoulders, a jerk of the head, or some other quirk. Wills knows, for example, that one Houston pitcher leans ever so slightly toward the plate just before he goes for the batter. "From the time he starts to lean to the time he goes into his delivery,'' says Wills, "I've taken two extra steps." He wastes no time trying to taunt a pitcher...
This year the industry expects to produce 37.5 million tons of paper and paperboard, and to operate at about 87% of capacity. But papermakers have also earned their improved prospects by the rethinking and revising that they did during the lean years...
With capacity plentiful and deliveries quick, steel customers are turning to a new long-term policy of lean inventories, hope to make do with less than half the amount they customarily kept on hand in the 1950s. Above all, the steelmakers complain that President Kennedy's determination to hold the price line denies them the capital that they need to cut their costs through modernization of their plants. At the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan fortnight ago, Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. summed up the industry's complaints: "Prices must be high...
Back to Sources. A lean, lively Londoner, Scott came out of Oxford's Trinity College with a first in "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), married an American girl, and wound up an American citizen in the wartime U.S. Army (intelligence). He took his doctorate in European history at Columbia and taught for three years at Amherst. Sensing that secondary-school teaching might offer more challenge and satisfaction, he switched in 1951 to Fieldston (651 students), which is sponsored by New York's Ethical Culture Society...
Here Nabokov becomes more poet than stuntman; the elegy Pale Fire has a lean grace and clarity of emotion worthy of a writer who is ranked, as Shade is supposed to be, only a step behind Robert Frost...