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...stood proudly at the plate in his pin-stripe New York Yankee uniform, listening to the roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
...Moondoggie, her beach-bum boy friend, to line up a couple of blind dates for her chums. Quicker than one can say Alitalia the adolescent sextet is scampering down the Spanish Steps, posing for gag snapshots in front of St. Peter's, twisting in the Baths of Caracalla. "Pinch me," says Gidget. Someone does, and she knows she is really, truly in the Eternal City...
...facts are turning up. Example: it costs 50% more, on the average, for a U.S. exporter to ship his goods abroad than for a European or Japanese to bring the same products to this country. Not until President Kennedy's recent warning that this fact has begun to pinch U.S. exports did the Government start to do something about it. Last week, heeding Kennedy's call for "corrective action," both the Commerce Department and the Federal Maritime Commission began putting pressure on shippers to straighten out rates...
...time, and some rival batters claim they actually smell smoke as it rips past. "Sal Maglie taught me the importance of getting everything behind each pitch," Radatz says. "He argued that 240 Ibs. was a natural blessing-so why not put it to good use?" Radatz likes to face pinch hitters. "After all, I'm all heated up, and they're coming off the bench cold to try and connect with one of my fast balls...
Still and all, as spectacles go, Cleopatra goes reasonably well, and may safely be seen by those who can afford it. But customers will be well advised to do what the wife of Senator Jacob Javits did on opening night. She brought a little pillow to use in a pinch...