Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large cast, while not having extraordinary voices as a rule, performed credibly, with tenor Malcolm Ticknor and bass Thomas Beveridge singing especially well. A fine all-around performance by David Black as one of the Chaplains stood out especially. With a better libretto, this could really be an exciting new opera, but even for those who don't find the prospect of seeing a good modern work attractive watching, An Incomplete Education may be better than staying home to study "Ictheology...
Count to 20. Giles's ruling passed the buck to the umpires, who are used to such chores. On top of everything else this season, they have had to start acting like stop watches. Anxious to speed up the game, the rule writers had a winter meeting and decreed that whenever the bases are empty a pitcher must pitch within 20 seconds after receiving the ball. What is more, a batter may not leave the batter's box after the pitcher is ready to throw...
...rhubarbs that these rules can cause are beginning to ripen. Batters and managers have sounded off bitterly; the big rush, says Chicago White Sox Manager Al Lopez, gives pitchers a dangerous opportunity for quick pitches that will catch batters unaware. Says Lopez: "Someone's going to get killed if they enforce the stepping-out-of-the-box rule...
...that needs to be exposed only four hours daily to any electric source or the sun to be recharged. The clock can store up enough light energy to last a year. Cost: about $500. G. Leon Breitling displayed a new engineer's stop watch with a movable slide rule around its rim, plus five hands and three data dials for calculations of speed and distance. Cost...
...Peter Vansittart has fashioned a melancholy novel that is sometimes static but frequently moving. Two brothers, Eric and the nameless first-person narrator of the story, have turned their war-ravaged country estate, Kasalten, into a rehabilitation center. The youngsters, turned savage by war and its aftermath, very nearly rule the place with their catapults, clubs, knives and even pistols. They move in organized gangs-Wolves, Eagles, Foxes, Bears-and even boast a secret-police force named Caesar...