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...breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
...done its best to back out of a pennant. The Phils were doing their best to back in. In first place for 123 out of 156 games so far this season, they were still on top, but barely. The Phils lost eight out of ten games, saw their lead shrink to a half-game over the red-hot (ten victories in their last eleven games) Cincinnati Reds, 1½ over the St. Louis Cardinals. With six more to play, two of them with the Reds and three with the Cards, Philadelphia Manager Gene Mauch was running short of fingernails. "They...
Through the last turn the two horses pounded, and Gun Bow's lead began to shrink-to three lengths, then two, then one. "I knew he was coming," sighed Gun Bow's jockey, Walter Blum. "I could hear his hoofs, and I could hear the crowd. I thought-well, I thought my horse could let Kelso come up and then draw out." Desperately, Blum went to the whip. Relentlessly, Kelso kept coming. At the top of the stretch, he ranged alongside. "Got you!" Valenzuela yelled-and at the wire Kelso was three-quarters of a length ahead...
...years ago when Alec Guinness, as The Man in the White Suit, invented an indestructible garment, only to be frustrated by businessmen shocked at its non-obsolescence. The indestructible suit is still a fantasy, but something almost as good is on the way. This one will not stretch or shrink, is impervious to stains and moths, goes from soaking wet to bone-dry in seconds, holds a press and defies wrinkles. It will be made of fiber glass, a versatile material that is beginning to be used in hundreds of consumer items after years of narrow specialization...
...discussing a number of the urgent problems in contemporary America, Fischer noted that all of them involve some kind of political action. He urged that the Radcliffe graduates under no circumstances shrink away from politics...