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Roundball among the amateurs was every bit as rugged as it is among the pros. Now as then, the rougher the game, the better Yardley likes it. He says that he scores best when a guard is climbing all over him: "When a guy is on top of you, you know where he is. You can watch the basket." Yardley has driven the Pistons to a place in the National Basketball Association championship playoffs. All their opponents know that if bothering Yardley makes him dangerous, leaving him free to shoot might turn him into-well, a man who would...
...came up for renewal, the State Department spearheaded the Administration case, arguing for reciprocal trade in terms of free-world strength and solidarity. On the floor of the House that year, a single vote saved the reciprocal trade bill from butchery by amendment. Facing an even rougher fight this year because of recession at home and keener import competition from abroad, Eisenhower & Co. decided to switch the task of defending reciprocal trade from
Passage of the bill without laming amendments, said the President, "is a must . . . essential to enable us to meet the latest form of economic challenge to the free world presented by Communism." But his request is likely to meet even rougher congressional opposition than the 1955 reciprocal trade bill, which escaped emasculation-by-amendment in the House by a single vote...
...University of Wisconsin and in Manhattan's Union Square-Gunawardena built his power month after month. By tying up island transport in incessant union warfare against rival Marxists, Gunawardena drove Banda to nationalize all buses Jan. 1. Later in the month, after even rougher bullyboy tactics by Gunawardena's dockworkers immobilized 72 cargo-crammed freighters in the harbor, Banda nationalized the port of Colombo. Over the opposition of moderate members of Banda's coalition but with Banda's approval, the legislature last week passed a bill empowering Gunawardena's Agriculture Ministry gradually to take over...
...that our adolescence is past. This country has been fortunate; its youth has grown strong and vigorous under every conceivable circumstance. But we have consistently tended to confuse luck with talent, and have been satisfied to rest on our big oars, failing to see that the sea could get rougher. The nation, swollen with pride of accomplishment, has been content to play the strapping fair-haired boy, stepping in to protect weaklings from bullies. We have sat in self-righteous judgement on the world's felons, and with our Big Stick have meted out punishment where it was necessary...