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Accompanying a motion to dismiss treason charges against Ezra Pound had come an impassioned plea from a fellow poet. Wrote Robert Frost: "I feel authorized to speak very specially for my friends, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. None of us can bear the disgrace of letting Ezra Pound come to an end where...
...until the fighting was over; they hoped for cooperation from the U.S.-owned oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake was a tactical one: they had been too confident that Sukarno's creaky government could not mount so competent and quick an offensive...
...while O'Malley rounded up cash, the Sports Authority died on second. The Authority was not given enough money to do more than study its problems. As the Long Island Rail Road site faded into improbability, politicians began suggesting other places, but none of them were pleasing. "One," says O'Malley, "was between a cemetery and a large body of water. I pointed out that we weren't likely to get many customers from either place." With $5,000,000 in his pocket and no place to spend it, with only a short-term lease on Ebbets...
Although he shares O'Malley's girth, Stoneham shows none of O'Malley's guile. He wanted to move, and he said so. He and Mayor Christopher came to terms quickly. Despite the almost certain knowledge that it was settling for a second-rate club, San Francisco welcomed its Giants...
Because of its lack of experience, Coach Love said that the chances of the heavy crew could not be appraised beforehand. "There was no veteran nucleus at all. It was a complete rebuilding job," he said. Five of the crew are Sophomores and none of the other three men was consistently on the varsity last season...