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Following Jones's lead, other Giant pitchers were performing wonders: in the course of running up a seven-game winning streak, they recorded three consecutive shutouts. But Sad Sam Jones is the mainstay of the Giants' pennant hopes, and no one knows it better than Manager Bill Rigney. Says he: "In trie past 15 years the only Giant pitcher I'd compare with Jones is Sal Maglie for getting cute, for making that ball curve or take off, and Sam is a damn sight faster...
...Deacon drilled his son endlessly on his stroke ("Left arm straight, right arm close, hands tight on the club"), brushed off criticism that the boy's swing was too violent ("When he gets older, he'll balance himself better"). In the process, Palmer absorbed from his father another mainstay of his game: stubborn determination. "Pap doesn't quit something until it's completely impossible," says Palmer. "He taught me that...
Even within the Gaullist U.N.R.-the political mainstay of Premier Michel Debré's Cabinet-there is dissension. Many U.N.R. wheelhorses openly sympathize with tough Jacques Soustelle-the man whom De Gaulle fired as Minister of the Sahara for showing undue sympathy toward the European insurgents of Algiers last January. Soustelle recently organized an "Information Center on the Problems of Algeria and the Sahara," makes no bones of his intention of offering "intellectual support" to Algeria's De Gaulle-hating settlers and their friends in the French army...
...this means an expansion of its market (its sales are up 48% over last year, when a glass strike crippled production), but it also means headaches for Plymouth. Many Plymouth customers are switching to Darts, buying them so fast that last month the Dart actually outsold the Plymouth, onetime mainstay of the company...
Supporting this maneuver is Humphrey's strong majority in the state party organization (six out of ten district chairmen announced for him, as did 35 out of 71 county chairmen), but they stand less than an even chance to outwit State Chairman Pat Lucey, shrewd mainstay of Kennedy's organization...