Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country after country, Chou preached alliance of the colored, underprivileged peoples of the world-"a pact amongst poor friends." This pitch went over better than any other, and no doubt it will be the theme song of future Chinese programs in Africa. But for all his polychromatic pandering, Chou still found many African leaders cool toward China. Indeed, some were just plain frightened...
...convention delegates. Because Glenn is still a Government employee (his resignation from the Marine Corps will be effective March 1), the Hatch Act precluded active convention politicking. But he received a stream of delegates in his hotel suite, where he signed autographs, flashed his famous grin and made his pitch...
...strongest point in the Ploughshare pitch is the low cost of nuclear digging. If employed on a very large scale, atoms are the world's cheapest workers, and they are getting cheaper year by year. Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, scientific director of Ploughshare, believes that a sea-level canal at the Sasardi-Morti route in eastern Panama could be completed, ready for use, for $500 million, using only 170 megatons of explosive. This is hardly more than the present Panama Canal cost when it was completed 50 years...
...dream who works for the Swedish Foreign Office, when he notices that Robinson is not really Robinson. Stand back, everybody. Newman may be a lousy writer but he is a Good American. Alone he takes on several dozen mugs from Moscow. They slash at him with switchblades, they pitch him off a skyscraper, they-well, frankly, they are deplorably inefficient. Newman survives...
...days before the long-promised morning of Wednesday, April 22. With 14 weeks to go, it had finally become apparent to everyone that the deadline would be met. Finally, that is, to everyone but Fair President Moses: he never had any doubts. "All that remains," says he, "is to pitch in, let nothing slow our pace, and throw open the doors to those who said at the beginning that we couldn't make...