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...time, struck out wildly, booted routine fly balls, and got only one hit in his first 26 times at bat. Durocher stuck loyally with the youngster, and Willie, a natural hitter with speed to spare, responded to such good effect that he ended up as the likeliest candidate for the National League's rookie-of-the-year...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
...some stirring. The banking committees of both houses had held six weeks of hearings, heard more than a hundred witnesses, and had barely gotten down to writing a bill. They showed little sympathy for the President's request for authority to stiffen rent controls and to tighten credit. Likeliest action: a last-minute 30-to-60-day extension of the present...
Died. Lieut. General José Enrique Varela, 59, one of Dictator Franco's top generals during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), and once considered his likeliest successor; of leukemia; in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco. During the Spanish war, Varela led the Fascists to a decisive victory at Toledo, later became War Minister. Pro-monarchist and anti-Axis, he was fired in 1942 after falling out with the Falange. Since 1945, Varela had been Spain's colonial ruler in Morocco...
...Stone's ability to impart eloquent persuasiveness to all who kiss it began as a folk legend or a pressagent's idea. Whatever its source, the story spread until it gave a word to the language, a handsome yearly revenue to the castle's owners. Likeliest story: legend was inspired by Cormach McDermod Carthy, an early iyth Century occupant of the castle, for his verbal skill at harassing Queen Elizabeth's English...