Word: pinnings
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...Force Base that afternoon, the Pentagon sped Talbott's departure with one of the fanciest farewells in Washington's history. Hurricane Connie's approach cut the planned aerial fly-over from 150 planes to ten B-47 jet bombers, but three Cabinet members watched Wilson pin the Medal of Freedom on Talbott (for meritorious service), 1,800 troops paraded, and the Air Force Band played So Long, It's Been Good to Know...
...seemed to be when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts, he has helped to revive an old Yankee habit: making those pin-stripe uniforms convince a ballplayer that he is just a little better than he ought...
...When a marshal told him that Hogan was home in 287, he said, "Now I know I have a chance." He made the most of it. On the 461-yd., uphill 17th, Fleck's second shot was a bold and beautiful wood that landed 40 ft. from the pin. He just missed his putt and settled for a par. He was on the 18th in two, after driving into the rough...
...that is most harrowing. Every man and woman in the show gets one fitting only. Next to the last day, they are fitted at the rate of one every 20 minutes. If anything is wrong, there are 14 tailors and 14 dressmakers backstage to lend a hand-or a pin...
...want of something better, Laborites pin their electioneering hopes on the wide spread British fear of the H-bomb (the Labor manifesto opposes more H-bomb tests, but stops short of opposing the making of the bomb). Topic B is the rising cost of living. But most curious of all, the word socialism is not even men tioned in the entire manifesto. The authors had in mind men like a London bus driver who explained last week: "I vote Labor because it speaks for the little man. But I can't stick nationalization and I don't like...