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...stimulate the domestic economy by encouraging industrial investment and consumer spending and making imported goods more expensive, and 2) to blunt the mounting attack on the wavering dollar. Said the President: "Every action I have taken tonight is designed to nurture and stimulate [the] competitive spirit, to help us snap out of the self-doubt, the self-disparagement that saps our energy and erodes our confidence in ourselves." Once more, Nixon was handling a crisis, and he seemed to be enjoying it all hugely. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Nixon clings to what is familiar until the last...
Blue seems made of sterner stuff. A muscle-rippling 6 ft., 190 lbs., he has none of the herky-jerky, elbow-popping moves that invariably send fastballers to the showers?or the osteopath. Rather he has a kind of loose, flowing grace that allows him to snap off a high, hard one with seemingly effortless ease. After dipping into a deep windup, he cocks his right knee to his shoulder, rears back until the ball is almost touching the ground behind him and then, in a whipping overhand motion, smokes it across the plate. "Vida has three things going...
...Realm. Standardizing pitch would have other benefits. Violinists would no longer have to worry about strings snapping under increased tensions. Singers would no longer be shocked by discovering, as they walk onto a strange stage, that their parts have been transposed right out of the realm of possibility. Piano manufacturers would have fewer problems with shattered warranties. "On a grand piano, the pull on all strings creates a force of about 20 tons," says Dr. Daniel W. Martin, chief engineer of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. "Raising the pitch ten cycles adds another ton of pull. It could crack...
Additional wisps of information on Johnson's activities in the months prior to the shooting have come from a Manhattan photographer who befriended the young black in March, and knew him well enough to snap several photographs of him. What emerges is the image of a flamboyant man who affected odd dress to set himself apart. According to his friend, however, Johnson could not handle a camera, an assessment that conflicts with Johnson's boasts that he was an accomplished film maker...
...economic advisor to the Wilson government, argue that Britain needs to remain outside EEC regulations in order to reform and revitalize its economy. Pro-Marketeers argue, however, that Britain urgently needs both tariff-free access to the larger Continental market and increased competition at home to snap its industries and stodgy unions out of their lethargy...