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Benched at the start because left-handed Whitey Ford was pitching for the Yanks, Bruton came in as a pinch hitter in the ninth but fanned. Given another chance after singles by Joe Adcock and Del Crandall in the 10th, he came through beautifully with a drive that probably would have been good for two bases if more were needed...
...Hunter Lomax has recorded Pygmies in the Middle Congo, basket weavers in France, geishas in Japan, Saturday night warblers in English pubs (but avoided Wales, which is "a tragedy; everything is Methodist hymns and Handel"). He has mapped the world folk-song families, found surprising links between them. The pinch-voiced, samisen-playing geisha finds an echo in the Spanish mountain-farm laborer thumping a ximbomba drum; "the lonesome, death-ridden American cowboy is a blood cousin to the raga singer in India...
...annual budget. Now, the President was leaving a nation troubled by labor strife, including new riots this week that injured scores. But it was also a country that had taken some giant strides in the past six years, despite the fact that Mexico in 1958 felt the pinch of recession north of the Rio Grande. Mileposts...
...revolutionary government took pains to assure Western oilmen that it would honor all contracts, would not only maintain oil production but try to increase it. The British-French-American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. welcomed this feeling of sweet reasonableness, but in common with oilmen everywhere took it with a pinch of salt...
...Pinch. In San Benedetto di Verona, Italy, a circus crowd watched Strongman Giuseppe Armandola take on four members of the audience who came forth to challenge him, saw Giuseppe flatten two of them before the others overwhelmed him, soon learned that the winners were cops and Giuseppe an escaped convict...