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...Braves' pinch hitter Nippy Jones was hit by pitcher Tommy Byrne, and scored the tying run on a double by Johnny Logan. With Logan on base, Matthews then tied the series with his homer into the right-field bleachers...
...door to all the many pay-TV systems now being developed instead of okaying only one or two, as telecasters had expected. Each system thus will scramble to sign up stations for its service and to corner the limited supply of performing talent and first-run movies. This may pinch the viewer; since his set can be adjusted to receive only one pay system, it will be blacked out of the good shows on the other systems. The sweaty competition will also spur attempts by the established free TV networks to muscle out the pay-TV upstarts. Yet some...
...Pull Their Black Curls!" Before 7 a.m. on back-to-school day crowds of white people began to gather outside the schools where Negro children had been registered-and it was clear that Nashville was in for serious trouble. There were scrawny, pinch-faced men in T shirts and jeans, vacant-faced women in curlers and loose-hanging blouses, teen-age boys in tight pants and greased ducktail hairdos. They flaunted Confederate flags and placards, e.g., WHAT GOD HAS PUT ASUNDER LET NOT MAN PUT TOGETHER...
...market. But they are not likely to ask Du Pont to dump the entire 64 million shares all at once-something that would not only disrupt the market but also cost Du Pont a $600 million to $700 million capital-gains tax (25%) in one lump. To ease the pinch, the Justice Department favors a more moderate plan, under which Du Pont's stock in G.M. would go into a temporary, nonvoting trust, which in turn would sell it off gradually over a number of years. Such a course would not only satisfy the Government's determination...
...last July (during a game with the Pirates that was suspended before completion), Cardinal Stan Musial snapped his National League record of consecutive games played at 862. Benched once more after another month of steady play, Stan managed to boost his record to 895 by going in as a pinch runner in the playoff of the suspended game...