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Moving into a place in the ring, Parry hefts the shot in his right hand. Handling the heavy sphere as gently as a waiter balancing a tray of champagne, he raises his left hand as if he were conferring a blessing on the spectators. His blue eyes narrow, he inches his left foot back toward the center of the circle like a burglar feeling his way down off a porch roof in the dark. Suddenly he ducks low. His eyes squint almost shut, and with a furious burst of energy he scrapes his whole body in a whirling drive across...
Tanker Shortage. If the canal and the pipelines should close down, the West would have to find new sources of oil and tankers to move it. The Western Hemi sphere could step up production an estimated 1,300,000 bbls. to 1,500,000 bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that...
...domestic sphere, Harris charged Eisenhower with proposing many large programs, and then failing to carry them out. He cited the Administration's verbal support for the school aid program, which was not only not followed up with action, but actually defeated by GOP members of Congress...
...Amity." Peking, exploiting any opportunity to loosen Japan's ties with the West, had decided to make a big thing of a Japanese trade fair, the first since the prewar days when North China was the biggest market in imperial Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
Also along the line of improving the teaching situation, Elder suggested a broadening of the Doctoral degree, both in the sphere of general knowledge and the sphere of mastery in one's own special field...