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...Phillies. Maybe Juan was prepared; but nobody else was-not for what followed. For the first 61 innings, not a single Phillie reached first base. After 7 innings, Marichal still had not given up a hit. At that point, Philadelphia Catcher Clay Dalrymple singled sharply to leftfield, and the spell was broken-barely. Juan shrugged, retired the next four Phillies in a row and thereby put the finishing touches on one of the most glittering debuts by a rookie pitcher in the history of baseball: a one-hit, 2-0 victory...
...such speed, even a gust of wind can spell disaster-as two-time 500 Winner A. J. Foyt discovered last week when his Ford-powered Sheraton-Thompson Coyote was blown into the outer retaining wall at 162 m.p.h. The car was totally demolished, but Foyt was unhurt. Chuck Rodee was not so lucky. Rodee already had gunned his 500-h.p. rear-engine Offenhauser through one practice lap at 159.9 m.p.h.; now he was trying to top that. Drifting through the speedway's No. 1 turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into...
...Madame Mère, Napoleon's mother, was the most impressive personage on the Napoleonic scene. Tiny, skinny, weasel-eyed and taciturn, she looked like a witch in a fairy tale and held her family under an unshakable spell...
...plan does not spell out in detail how Europe is to achieve this growth-as, for instance, is done in the French national plan-but it does make some suggestions. Since labor is short in Europe, increased productivity will have to come from other sources. Unless they put more effort into research and development, the Six would remain "the principal importer of discoveries and the leading exporter of intelligence," said the committee, and "condemn themselves to a cumulative underdevelopment which would soon make their decline irreversible." The report also urges less consumer spending and more private and public investment...
...more virile and decorative than the crew cut," she said. As for the fashions, observed Marya, who dresses sedately enough herself: "If it's sometimes hard to tell boys and girls apart in boots and sweaters and pants and hair -well, to some of us they spell a wonderful freedom and comfort and an honest sense of the body...