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...bright for Walker. It is doubtful that Vernon Law can duplicate his sensational comeback of last season, so pitchers like Steve Blass and ex-Yankee Pete Mikkelsen must take up the slack. Bob Bailey must switch back to third base after a year in the outfield. He and Law are definitely the key factors in any Buc flag chances...
...felt at Bucharest's Continental Bar, where "Miss Dyna Mit" slithers through a tassel-tossing version of Amore Scusami. The entrance price of 10 lei ($1.60) discourages most Rumanians, but the hordes of Japanese and German, English and French businessmen who haunt Bucharest year round take up the slack. The real life of the city is best seen on a winter morning at 5:30 when the first trolleys grind across the frozen tracks and queues of workers shuffle aboard, carrying packets of bread and sausage, to head for the 23rd of August Heavy-Machinery Building Enterprise...
...dialogue is archly mock-Edwardian; the pace, trampolin-bouncy. The sprung rhythms prove complementary, and the cast handle the outlandish fool ery like seasoned farceurs. The show does have its slack and silly moments, but never when Paul Ford is dead center, deadpan and dead earnest, the dourest living master of comic mayhem...
...another 16 plants are abuilding. But the factories were designed to supply the federation's 11 million customers, and since the breakup Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued by strike-prone unions, face increasingly stiff competition from aggressive and more experienced manufacturers in Hong Kong, Japan and Formosa...
There is no disagreement among American military men that the infusion of U.S. combat troops has taken up enough slack to give the plucky but war-weary South Vietnamese the pause they needed after a tough summer. At Dau Tieng the government regulars stood and fought it out for four hours without losing a single piece of equipment to the Reds. At Thach Tru they stood up and charged against heavy odds. There has been a noticeable decrease in the South Vietnamese desertion rate since the Americans began arriving in quantity. Says General William C. Westmoreland: "The presence...