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...Shea Stadium. The first game was a regulation nine-inning affair, and the Giants won 5-3. But the nightcap went 23 innings before Catcher Del Crandall, only able-bodied man on the Giant roster (except pitchers) who had not yet played, drove in the winning run with a pinch double to give San Francisco an 8-6 victory...
Detours. A few South African companies, of course, have felt a boycott pinch. When Denmark stopped shipping small arms to South Africa in 1960, it also reduced its own imports by more than 50%. Clothing shipments from South Africa to Black Africa fell from $12 million in 1959 to $5,000,000 last year. The profits of South African Airways have dwindled because its planes, banned from the Black African airspace, must fly the time-and-money-consuming "apartheid route" over the Atlantic to Europe...
...Shea Stadium. The first game was a regulation nine-inning affair, and the Giants won 5-3. But the nightcap went 23 innings before Catcher Del Crandall, only able-bodied man on the Giant roster (except pitchers) who had not yet played, drove in the winning run with a pinch double to give San Francisco an 8-6 victory...
...bleaker, that is a considerable expansion, even if it will not by itself cure Egypt's terrible poverty. Egypt's 27 million inhabitants-twice as many as when Nasser was born 46 years ago-are crammed into a mere 4% of the land. And the pinch gets tighter all the time: each year, 800,000 more Egyptians come into the world. The dam will not only ease this pressure by providing one-third more cultivable land, but with its hydroelectric plant will also triple Egypt's power output and cut power costs significantly...
...achievement was impressive, but Bayer had his eye on the much more difficult feat of capturing the ocean's gold. He concocted another chelating agent with an appetite for gold and went back once more to Naples. There he put a pinch of the new compound in 100 liters of sea water and shook the mixture mechanically for twelve hours. Then he filtered out the chelating agent and washed it with acid. The result: 1.4 micrograms of gold (.000000049 oz.), the exact amount in 100 liters of Naples sea water...