Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's to See? Several, as it turned out. If the Dodgers expected the Twins' pitchers to panic over their cap-gun offense, they learned otherwise when Jim ("Mudcat") Grant shrugged that he had not even bothered to look at scouting reports on the Los Angeles lineup. "Their leading hitter is batting about .288," explained Grant, "so there isn't much to look over, is there...
...balcony. New York Philharmonic musicians complain they cannot hear each other onstage, say hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall in favor of mellow surroundings of Carnegie Hall. Soloists panic, talk of canceling performances. Hall management says it takes time for ear to adapt. Hall Acoustician Leo Beranek, who spent four years studying 54 of world's finest concert and opera houses in preparation, pleads: "I predicted in the beginning that it would take a year to get the hall into...
...before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with one karate chop? No? Would you believe three boards? Would you believe a loaf of bread...
...Francisco's Franks refused to panic. "We've fallen back before," he said, "and we've always regrouped. This is the last time we're falling back. That's a promise. We will retrench and dig in and start to go again." Whereupon the Giants went out and lost their third game in a row, 8-2, to the Milwaukee Braves - while the Dodgers were winning their seventh straight over St. Louis, 4-3. Next day, Willie Mays crashed his 50th homer, arid the Giants finally snapped out of their losing streak with...
...Less Panic. Though many European businessmen fear that the added pressure of American borrowing will pinch Europe's already tight capital markets, some of their panicky aversion to takeovers by the great American giants has worn off in the past few months. A major reason is that the U.S.'s $132 million balance-of-payments surplus in the second quarter muted the old complaint that American businessmen were using their almighty dollars without restraint or discipline to buy up European industry.* There is also a growing awareness among Europeans that the U.S. stake is still relatively small, amounting...