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...booed with equal ferocity for his playing style. Never a graceful player, he made himself indispensable with the kind of hustle Enos Slaughter personified and the aggressive disregard for physical safety of Ty Cobb. Running like a blocking back, Rose has broken up more double plays?and infielder's pride???than any other man playing baseball today. During the 1970 All-Star game, a bone-crunching collision at home plate left Cleveland Catcher Ray Fosse sitting stunned in the dust and television viewers aghast. In 1973 Rose had a wrestling match with Mets Shortstop Bud Harrelson that left New York...
...America pushed west with extraordinary violence, and the easy justification for its use goes deep into the American character, helping to create one of the world's highest rates of violent crime. Though world statistics are notoriously unreliable, only a few countries?including Colombia and Mexico, with their macho pride???report higher homicide rates. But obviously such a tradition in itself does not explain today's soaring incidence of crime. "Everything we touch hits the next question," said one sponsor of a university conference on the causes of crime. Following are some of the current theories about crime...
...discovered a double life through the league. Started casually, in one year it grew into a genuine vehicle of expression for thousands of Americans of Italian descent who had nothing to do with the Mafia or crime. Harnessing their honest sentiments, Colombo had helped Italian Americans to achieve new pride???and managed to do a few things for the narrower cause as well, like embarrassing the Justice Department and The Godfather film makers into dropping the words Mafia and Cosa Nostra from their vocabulary...
Axelson Engine. Axelson Machine Co. of Los Angeles were justly vexed at the report that a broken valve had ended an endurance flight at Minneapolis (TIME, July 8). That plane was driven by a seven-cylinder radial Axelson motor (developed last year), which carried the Axelson pride???a device equalizing valve lifts and minimizing the strains which break valves. What investigation showed actually stopped the flight was a nut which broke because a mechanic had not properly tightened a companion...
...LAND OF THE PILGRIM'S PRIDE???George Jean Nathan?Knopf...
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