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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M. WODAJO...
...which in mid-July was helping to land marines in Lebanon-and the dispatch from Pearl Harbor of the big Midway the next day were ordered to make a show of force and to dramatize U.S. concern. As an added evidence of U.S. activity, Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker turned up in Taipei to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, his aides, and top U.S. brass in the area...
...light bat Banks hit 44 homers in 1955 to break the record of 39 set for shortstops in 1949 by husky Vern Stephens of the Boston Red Sox. Banks hit 28 in 1956 and 43 last year, despite a habit of swinging wildly at low outside pitches. "I'm just swinging at strikes now," says Banks. "I just try to meet the ball and get a base hit." Adds Manager Scheffing: "When he's getting his hits, he's getting his homers...
Honeybees, for all their storied sweetness, are second to rattlesnakes as a menace to life in the U.S., the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Henry M. Parrish reported last week. He traced 55 deaths in five years to rattlesnake bites, and 52 to allergic or anaphylactic (shock) reactions in sensitized subjects stung by bees. Hornets, wasps and yellow jackets (TIME. Aug. 19. 1957) accounted for 30 other deaths. In the same period all venomous snakes caused 71 deaths...
...clear grasp of Jacobowsky's innate strength that every sly remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey's summation of him seem just right, and somehow regrettable: "There are no men left in this bleak, awful, modern world like...