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Pray Boru! Immodest as his words may sound, Shoriki is right. His optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league...
Broad Potential. In many ways, the man who brought the rescue plan to Washington was characteristic of today's Brazil. Finance Minister Francisco Clementino San Thiago Dantas, 51, is broad, myopic, ambitious, divided between left and right, and fairly bursting with brilliant potential. He graduated from the . National Law Faculty of the University "of Brazil at 20, went on to become one of the most successful corporation lawyers in the country. But in 1958 he turned left, joined Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party, and got himself elected a federal deputy from Minas Gerais state. In 1961, when Goulart...
...Gaulle's is the "greatness" of all petty and myopic troublemakers who can't see beyond their personal ambitions and/or the absurd glories of some manmade, artificially delineated space-on-a-map to the genuine glory: the ultimate unity of mankind. Spare us such self-appointed saviors...
...final identification was only possible by prying patron from chair, the better to read the gilt-embossed name card affixed to it, some players could be told without a program. Bigtime buyers for stores or manufacturers, from both the U.S. and Europe, tended to be short, squat, greying and myopic; they wore lumps of coats with muskrat collars, orthopedic shoes and chewed Sen-Sen by the handful. Lesser buyers, reluctant to pay the heavy cost of admission (often a promise to buy as much as $1,700 worth of merchandise) lurked around showroom exits, approaching departing guests with whispered offers...
...Administration itself. Somebody will have to beat the idea into the woolly heads of the House subcommittee that most of the waste in economic aid comes from treating the program as an arm of highly limited notions of national security. It is not selfless humanitarianism, but a myopic desire to be brisk, that sends dollars to chase a crisis in Indonesia even when there is no reason to suppose that the Indonesians will use them properly. And yet it is only crisis assistance that Administration and Congress can always agree to accept. The money expended is inevitably misused, and A.I.D...