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...make the most difficult problem that military scientists have tackled so far-more difficult even than atomic bombs. The program has already drained the country dry of specially qualified scientists. Every missile plant and laboratory has a welcome for the dewiest young technician. When large-scale production begins, the pinch will be even tighter. Some missilemen think that the Government should shut down the television industry to free electronic men for guided-missile work...
...first boldly and systematically propounded the principle that the state is beyond morality. It is expedient, he held, for the state to be as moral as possible, because a flagrantly amoral state will engender amorality among its people-and that way lies decline and defeat. But in a pinch, said Machiavelli, the state must behave as a law unto itself...
...Crimson hitters with a varied assortment of curves, drops, and other slow stuff. The Cantabs loaded the bases with none out in the fifth on three walks; but Russ Johnson hit into a double play and Ralph Robinson flied out to and the threat. Walt Greeley drove a pinch hit single in the eighth inning for the only other hit off Brooks...
Once you're in the pie-in-the-face mood, Si Bunce's hickory-smoked, sugar-cured characterization of the woodcutter forced to be a doctor is wonderful. The roguish woodcutter makes the most of his mistaken profession, giving Bunce the chance to leer lasciviously and pinch patients. (The actresses, incidentally, are Radcliffe, not padded males.) Some of the performances in the supporting cast are rather wooden when they are played straight, but luckily none of the performers is above stepping out of character at a propitious moment. James O'Neil's alert directing shows up well in groups scenes...
...suffered with Boudreau for nine years, still find it hard to locate in Lopez the personal magnetism that Boudreau generated. Nor can they forget the Sunday afternoon against the Yankees in 1948 when Boudreau dragged himself to the plate, a mass of liniment and tape, and delivered a pinch single that won a crucial game. And the Boudreau shift, the two home runs at Fenway Park when the Tribe won the play-off from the Red Sox, the flawless double plays--all are permanent parts of the Cleveland scene...