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...Future. A weekly, hour-long series of debates. Gitlin started by making a list of 50 "impossible" opponents, e.g., Ben-Gurion and Nasser, is still trying to line up as many as possible. The first, hardly sensational encounter, on Nov. 12, joins Atomic Scientists Edward Teller and Leo Szilard on disarmament...
...Fighter. Only Casey could follow Casey's reasoning as he wildly juggled his batting order, but his convoluted maneuvers usually worked. The funny- man had the best-stocked memory about players-friend and foe alike-in all baseball. "He's a genius," said Leo Durocher. "It's unfair to compare other managers with him." Casey was a fighter. Punching at the air, he would poise in defiance on the top step of the dugout and bellow angry encouragement at his team. Lifted by Casey, the Yankees won ten pennants in twelve years, took seven World Series...
...first big break in the union ranks came in Schenectady, N.Y. at G.E.'s biggest plant, where the 8,700 members of I.U.E. Local 301 had never shown much enthusiasm for a strike. Local 301 stayed out only eleven days, then went back to work. Explained Leo Jandreau, the local's business agent: "Carey is on a suicidal expedition that will weaken the I.U.E. There are no fighting issues in the G.E. strike...
...Fall Down, by James Leo Herlihy. A fresh, Salingering tale of a hooky-playing 14-year-old and his off beatnik parents, whose foundering world finds focus in another brother as wild as his name: Berry-berry...
...Fall Down, by James Leo Herlihy. A fresh, warm, Salingering description of a hooky-playing 14-year-old, his ne'er-do-well older brother and their offbeatnik parents...