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Harvard's starting line-up against Specified will be the same one it used against Boston University, with the possible exception of second base. Melimis hasn't decided yet whether to start John Camera or Henry Young at the keystone. Corner was removed for a pinch hitter in the first inning against the Terriers, and Young filled in adequately for the rest of the afternoon...
...economic conference showed that the Russians and the Chinese may be feeling the pinch of the West's embargo. But it was also designed to drive a wedge between the U.S. and the free nations of Europe, who badly need to build up their export markets.*Stalin himself showed his best smiling face to the West (see BUSINESS). At week's end he had a long chat with India's departing Ambassador, Sir Sarvepalli Radharkrishnan, and convinced him that everybody should get together peacefully around a table...
...particular problem of beating the Boston Red Sox that day was of mere academic interest. It was solved in typical Yankee fashion: a two-run pinch double by lumbering (230 lbs.) Johnny Mize, now 39, but still able to wield a potent bat. Final score: 7-4. After the game Stengel said happily: "A hitter like John can rifle that ball even if he has to be wheeled up to the plate.* He'll win or help win some games for us in the pinch this year, same as last...
Churches & Jails. From Washington came more signs that the materials pinch was easing. The General Services Administration, which took over natural rubber buying when prices soared a year ago, turned the job back to private industry. Natural rubber was piling up and the price dropped from 80? to 38? a lb. NPA, which had planned to turn down 645 building applications for churches, firehouses, jails, etc., gave the projects a green light because of the easier steel supply...
...businessmen have long known that rearmament's tightest pinch on civilian production would come in 1952's second quarter. But last week, when the Defense Production Administration allocated the quarter's supplies of metals, manufacturers learned that the pinch will not be as tight as they had feared. Reason: the "stretch-out"in the arms program enabled DPA to reduce the additional 10% cut in metals which had been scheduled. Instead, steel will not be cut at all; copper and aluminum will be cut only 5% on the average. And even "less essential" producers (aluminum blinds, cigarette...