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...batting champion and MVP are not corollary awards. The sparkplug value of a player cannot be evaluated by statistics, which are the sole arguments which Williams partisans muster. Mantle approached Williams in most batting departments, and beat...
...M.I.T.'s staff of scientists and engineers rose from 700 to more than 6,000. In 1948, when Compton resigned to become chairman of Washington's National Research and Development Board, Killian was named to succeed him. "We must continue," he said at his 1949 inauguration, "to muster the democratic ranks of American scientists into invincible battalions. We must again be able to beat the enemy to the draw as we did in developing the atomic bomb. Our schools of science and engineering, if they are strong, are a powerful fleet-in-being, a striking force that...
Brown scored once again, midway in the second quarter, before the Crimson was able to muster anything even approaching an offensive threat. Dick McLaughlin finally got the varsity rolling just before the half, when he completed six short passes in a row to various Crimson receivers; but the half ended with the home team still 35 yards from the Brown goal-line...
...graveyard was bathed in a running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
Chundrigar promptly pledged Pakistan's continued loyalty to the anti-Communist Baghdad and SEATO Pacts. But few observers in Karachi believed that his rickety coalition could muster the strength to deal with the nation's slide toward economic chaos. A reliable U.S. ally appeared to be getting weaker, and, because of this weakness, less reliable...