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...first game, Willie started slowly: he struck out twice before he got a scratch single. In the field, he was the same old picture of graceful perfection. If Willie and his teammate Ruben Gomez (who pitches for Santurce) found anything different about Caribbean baseball, it was the ball itself. Much more lively than the ball big leaguers are used to, the Puerto Rican special is a real rabbit ball. Batters can clobber it; pitchers learn how to throw and duck if they want to hang onto their heads...
...most critical problems of politics today are in foreign affairs and it is in just this area that the Eisenhower policy and previous Democratic policies are most nearly alike. Scratch all the slogans and political mud off of Secretary Dulles and you will have a man who, if not a Democrat, certainly follows the basic tenets of the Truman-Acheson foreign policy. The Administration today is strongly internationalist; it admits it has turned its back once and for all on the isolation of the past...
Second Day. Next day, Eden and Dulles sat close together on the same side of the table. A sudden quiet fell as the American made ready to speak. For a moment, only the scratch of Dulles' pencil could be heard over the delegates' earphones. Then, quietly, the Secretary of State began to speak. "The U.S.," he said, "responds in many ways like a barometer to the climate which exists in Europe. If the climate is one of unity and cohesion, our assistance and aid of every kind goes out. If the climate is one of dissension . . . our tendency...
...plains. Disney fails-partly because of the smug, fatherly pats of approval he keeps giving the animal kingdom, as though he personally had founded it with Mickey Mouse. Here and there, however, the picture has a patch of beauty briary enough (as the nursery rhyme puts it) to scratch a man's eyes in. Some patches...
...Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila. Christopher Columbus died there, broken and disappointed. Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people. They speak the purest Spanish of Spain. The climate is "nine months of winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa...