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...said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to an interviewer in 1948. Last week Oppenheimer's life-not merely the pros & cons of the security risk charges against him, but the whole development of his mind and character-became a matter of interest, more than ever before, to those who shared with him an uneasy habitation of the planet...
...Yankees aren't spectacular, but then, they haven't been spectacular for the past five years. Their winning combination seems to be a weird mixture of a great tradition, a clever-trading front office, an infinitely resourceful manager, an inexhaustible farm system and a bunch of old pros...
...Boudreau's Bosox and Bucky Harris' Senators loom as the two dark horses of the league and in this book they figure to place and show in that order. The Sox are mainly a young team, but they are sprinkled with old pros like Kell, Evers, and Williams. The Jensen trade helped them a lot. Even without the injured Williams they look like a second-place club, but with a strong Williams they could challenge the Yanks. The Senators, with a top-flight pitching staff and a fast young club, look like third place, but won't go any higher...
...remained unamended because it was originally passed by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and, until recently, liberally interpreted by a Democrat-controlled NLRB. Furthermore, labor leaders wanted outright repeal. Though the labor leaders have since changed their tune, the Taft-Hartley fight remains a battle of the professionals. And like old pros who have been through all this before, they may well let the battle die-and Congress will feel no need to change...
...Diego, Gene Littler, national amateur golf champion, showed touring tournament pros how the game should be played. Over the par-72 course in the $15,000 San Diego Open, Amateur Littler fired rounds of 67, 66, 69, 72, beat the runnerup, Professional C. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, by 4 strokes...