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...Unknown Soldier" during his three years in the job, Kuhn was a compromise choice. Caught in a squeeze play between Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees, and Charles ("Chub") Feeney, vice president of the San Francisco Giants, the squabbling owners surprised themselves by deciding unanimously on Pinch Hitter Kuhn on the first vote. Said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn: "The two leagues have been feuding for so long I didn't think we could even agree on the sun rising in the east...
...board sees it, the fundamental inflationary pressure on the economy lately has come from spending by business. The board has therefore aimed its credit pinch at the chief source of corporate loans: the commercial banks...
...other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch-hit. At the Metropolitan Opera, John Alexander had to give up after two acts of La Sonnambula. And in Philharmonic Hall, Pianist Jose Echaniz could not even make it past intermission...
...soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force. No country has felt the pinch of the Suez shutdown more than Russia, which must send its ships around Africa to Asia in order to keep Hanoi supplied, among other things. The Russians have a dredge in the Mediterranean, and could send it into the canal with a destroyer escort, daring the Israelis to shoot...
...this week, the outlook is for a Republican pickup of 22 seats. That would give the 91st Congress a Democratic edge of 226 Democrats to 209 Republicans. It would also give the House a more conservative tilt, making it more hostile to foreign aid than even the pinch-penny 90th, more sympathetic to defense appropriations, less anxious to enact fresh domestic programs, more eager to transfer federal projects to state and local control...