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Pitcher Don Sutton struggled with his control at the start of the season, yet he has won twelve games, against nine losses, mixing up curves and fastballs that leave batters fuming. First Baseman Steve Garvey, ramrod straight in the batter's box, the Jock Armstrong of baseball, has had that regular Garvey year: M.V.P. in the All-Star game, hitting .289, with 84 runs batted in. Rightfielder Reggie Smith, who has been alternately brooding or brilliant in the past for Boston and St. Louis, is now a happily artful Dodger. He has a tremendous arm, a pulverizing...
...shook the spectators. Woman camp followers cheered on their men and hissed at the enemy. Colonial soldiers taunted: "The King's a queen." Indeed, spirits run so high at these mock fights-marking all the important Revolutionary War engagements, starting in 1974-that individual soldiers are not given ramrods. The reason: an overexcited fighter might forget to extract a ramrod from his musket before firing, sending it flying like a spear...
...would soon find out about the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, which ruled China at that time. Its ramrod-straight young leader was Chiang Kaishek, who by 1928 had succeeded by force of arms in establishing control over the entire country, incorporating dozens of powerful local warlords into a tenuous union. For four years Chiang had endured an uneasy united front with the fledgling Communist Party (founded in 1921), but during his "reunification campaign, "he had broken with it, determined to destroy it. Weaker by far than the Nationalist Party, the Communist Party went underground in the cities while a small...
Despite these gloomy omens, the government tried to ramrod through Parliament five controversial bills-among them a measure nationalizing the country's ship and aircraft building industries-that the country's powerful labor unions had demanded as a quid pro quo for voluntarily helping to keep wage increases down. All the bills had been passed once before by the Commons and sent on to the Tory-dominated House of Lords. Unable to throw out the bills, the Lords nonetheless tacked on more than 100 crippling amendments and sent them back to the Commons...
Inhibiting the Law. Eanes tried to soften his image during the campaign by doffing his trademark dark glasses and even kissing an occasional baby, but at his first press conference as President-elect, he lived up to his reputation as a ramrod disciplinarian. Stressing Portugal's need for "a homogeneous, cohesive and operational government," he warned that "insurrectional activities will no longer be tolerated, no matter which direction they come from." Referring to worker and peasant takeovers of factories and farms in southern Portugal, he accused the instigators of "intimidating the population and inhibiting...