Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They may have to, because none of the four teams seems capable of launching a winning streak that would allow it to pull away in the final three weeks. The Chicago White Sox have solid pitching, but they also have a team batting average of .229. The Boston Red Sox can hit, but their pitching is so shaky that Manager Dick Williams is talking about using his lone ace, Righthander Jim Lonborg (record: 19-7), every two days. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers need heavy slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last...
...agreement of sorts did come out of Khartoum. In a two-hour conference at the home of Sudanese Premier Mohammed Mahgoub, Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal promised to stop their five-year confrontation in Yemen. They signed a treaty under which Nasser will pull out the 20,000 troops that now prop up Yemen's Leftist Premier Abdullah Sallal, Feisal will stop sending arms to Sallal's tough Royalist enemies, and three neutral Arab states will send in observers to make sure that no one cheats. If carried out as promised, that pact would almost...
...frightening to think that supposedly intelligent leaders of our country are willing (Bishop Sheen) to pull out of Viet Nam altogether and risk a terrible bloodbath [Aug. 11]. Others (Sherman Cooper and Stuart Symington) want to halt the bombing. They must have forgotten that we have stopped the bombing and fighting at several intervals and with no results. Such thinking only prolongs the war or brings negotiations that favor the enemy...
...Wages of Sin. At local levels, the Viet Cong bureaucracy has some obvious virtues. Whereas the South Vietnamese government tends to pull the best civil servants into Saigon and sends the worst to hardship duty in the boondocks, the Viet Cong, with only hardship
...gained precious little ground. "The situation at present," lamented a sad Tito in Alexandria, "is an impasse." Tito had come to the Middle East with a compromise proposal calling for the Arabs to recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation and for Israel, in turn, to pull out of all its "new territories." As Tito might have expected, the idea got nowhere. Nasser refused to compromise because "such a move would encourage future aggression to get further concessions." In Damascus, Tito heard the same. "Imperialist machinery," trumpeted the Baathist Party's daily Al Baath, "is conspiring...