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...while it appeared the Crimson was headed for disaster. Starter Paul Del Rossi walked the first man to face him in four straight pitches. In an attempt to rectify the mistake, he wheeled towards first suddenly with a beautiful pick off peg. He caught the runner--and first sacker Phil Bernstein--off guard. Bernstein missed the throw and Navy had a man on third...
Shaken slightly, Del Rossi promptly issued another free pass. Bob St. George made a nice catch of Chuck Galloway's fly to right, and quickly rifled the ball home, surprising the runner and third baseman Mike Drummey. Drummey let catcher Dick Diehl's peg glide into the outfield, and Navy...
...guess Jackie Gleason realized you can't put a round peg in a square home...
From first grade to college, and in industry and the military as well, the intelligence quotient is the chief U.S. measuring rod for separating the bright from the dull. But to a growing body of angry critics. I.Q. tests are unfair. They argue that too many teachers peg children by one I.Q. test. Yet many of the challenges -typically, picture puzzles, number games or scrambled sentences-do not measure native intelligence so much as cultural advantages such as familiarity with vocabulary and material objects. Thus I.Q.s. instead of being fixed for life, can be raised by training. Then...
...agriculture and mining at home. The Latin Americans themselves further hamper things by placing restrictive measures on exports in the misguided notion that they are encouraging local processors and manufacturers. Brazil sometimes sets quotas on cotton and sugar exports; Uruguay imposes a 20% surtax on export wool. Other nations peg their export prices without making any provision for the inflation that gallops through most of Latin America...