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Ferocious Fairness. "But the privileges we claim for ourselves at every step are based on the old conception of ourselves as the public's watchdog, as the men a little outside our society, measuring it with a pinch of skepticism. If the press conferences become less productive because they are more polite, the fault may be ours. To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair...
Always the camera trains upon her transcendental face, eyes widened by arrested tears, tentative, reaching, wistful in her offerings of tender inadequacy. Here in her eyes, green eyes, the film unfolds. As she steals into his bedroom, only to resist him. As a pinch-lipped minister exhorts her for her mortal sin. As her father's drunken friends break into the adulterer's home. As he ignores her, making witty cocktail talk with superficial antagonists...
...stretch clothes may cost an estimated 5% more than the old-style stuff, but response so far indicates that no one minds much. In a pinch, even a pocketbook can be made to stretch...
...Yanks almost pulled off a last-minute rally in the ninth. After striking out Tom Tresh, Gibson gave up a long homer to Clete Boyer. Pinch hitter John Blanchard fanned, but Linx homered to make it 7-5. But while two relief pitchers warmed up furiously, Gibson got Bobby Richardson to pop up and end the series...
Simmons, a 35-year-old lefthander, pitched Saturday in New York and allowed only one run in eight innings before being lifted for a pinch hitter. Bouton went all the way in that one, giving up one run and winning the game on Mickey Mantle's home run in the ninth...