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Baseball players who balk at signing contracts are as much a sign of spring as the first shoot of onion grass. Dealing from grand isolation, the holdouts usu ally settle, after a few ritual parries, for quite a bit less than they want. Some thing new has come along that could forever upset that balance. For the first time in baseball history, two players have teamed up to hold out as a unit...
...Moscow press corps, in fact, does better by not going anywhere. When its members are not posing in front of onion-domed Russian churches, they find it most rewarding to sit in the office reading Soviet newspapers, magazines and wire-service copy-or to have the translator read them. Some 80% of reporters' stories are culled from these publications, which divulge big news by small innuendo. "If you're any good at all," says Joseph Michaels, who covered Moscow for NBC, "you get to be a weather vane. You catch a scent, like...
...cutting their herds and reducing their feed bills, with the result that fewer and leaner cattle are now coming to market. At the same time, the vegetable supply has been shortened by acts of nature: drought in the Maine and Long Island potato country, heavy rains in the carrot, onion and lettuce fields of the Southwest. Beyond this, the Government's recently imposed restrictions on Mexican braceros and other imported farm labor have reduced the availability of migrant workers to pick ripening crops. Federal economists predict that prices will hold high through August-but then relief will come. Already...
...Jones took off on a 23-day sightseeing tour that included Moscow. When he hit the Big Onion, naturally, the airman dashed off another note, saying, "Here I am, and I'm thinking of joining the Workers' Party," sealed it and stuck it in a mailbox. His chuckles lasted all the way to the Rumanian border, where Soviet border guards, muttering about "passport irregularities," whisked him off his tour bus and back to Kiev. There he was slapped into a guarded hotel room and visited by three suave but hopeful Soviet agents, who, it seemed, read other people...
...first live radio coverage of combat; once, he installed himself in a haystack on the battlefield so that listeners could hear the crackle of gunfire. For 20 days during the Munich crisis in 1938, he scarcely budged from his CBS studio in New York, where he subsisted on onion soup and slept on a cot. He provided running translations of the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini as they came over short wave and analyzed them on the spot. He saw the significance of Munich and warned his audiences accordingly: "Hitler always says after each of his conquests...