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Captain Ken Rossano held the Quakers to five scattered hits and a lone sixth inning run, as his teammates built up an early 7-0 lead for an easy victory. Dom Repetto pitched the ninth inning as Rossano left for a pinch-hitter...
...purpose of taking a rest; there is, of necessity, a kind of "professional" attitude towards relaxation, or towards going to Europe once in a lifetime, or even traveling to Mexico which provides the nearest violence, poverty, and antiquity. Professors find something to teach in another university. In a pinch, they can cross the United States, from East to West--according to that law which demands that one "Go to San Francisco," which is the liet-motiv of American dreams, like the Moscow of Chekov's Three Sisters,--while westerners can think only of the East...
Coach Norm Shapard said that he definitely plans to start Dick Fisher in left field today. Fisher, who is hitting .444, was scheduled to start against Yale, but only appeared as a pinch-hitter. Bing Crosby will start behind the plate, while John Simourian, Bob Cleary, Bob Hastings, and Tom Bergantino will round out the infield. Walt Stahura, Fisher, and Matt Botsford will start in the outfield...
Full Safe. There was no doubt that the money pinch was real. Chicago's big commercial banks were slow to take on new borrowers, were only lending to prime risks. At a Pennsylvania Bankers Association meeting, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. felt called upon to defend his policy. FRB, said Martin, has "always met business's seasonal needs and will keep on doing so." And needs were being met: even at high interest rates, commercial bank loans in Manhattan alone rose $122 million for the week, nearly five times the increase for the comparable period of last...
...Other Possibilities." Kurchatov did not claim that the Russians have accomplished much with their pinch-effect experiments. He pointed out that it had not yet proved possible to keep the hot gas out of contact with the walls of the tube for more than a fraction of a second. "The success of further work in this direction," he said, "will greatly depend on the possibility of creating conditions under which the plasma [ionized gas] column will experience multiple oscillations during the buildup of the current without coming in contact with the walls. However, there are serious reasons to believe that...