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...made some notable contributions to sports coverage in its first year: a wide use of color photography; detailed Previews of major events; the new Conversation Piece, a revealing report on sports greats in their own words, e.g., Pitcher Preacher Roe's admission that he threw illegal spit balls...
From Caracas to La Paz last week, red carpets were unrolled, honor guards got busy with spit and polish, ceremonial banquet tables were laid. Reason: a merry-go-round of formal state visits by Latin American chiefs of government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President...
Soekarno, for his part, acknowledged the army's growing power, but he also remembered the colonel's past loyalty. Said the President: "Lubis has spit in my face and dragged me through mud, but he's still my son." When Soekarno returns from Mecca to appoint a new government, he may find that son Lubis and his army friends have a few suggestions to make...
...this be said once more, in unmistakable language: In May of 1954, that inept fraternity of politicians and professors known as the United States Supreme Court chose to throw away the established law. These nine men repudiated the Constitution, spit upon the tenth amendment, and rewrote the fundamental law of this land to suit their own gauzy concepts of sociology. If it be said now that the South is flouting the law, let it be said to the high court: you taught...
...used to visit his grandfather as a boy. Life at Laugharne seemed to suit him. He played with his three children, visited his parents, who lived in the same village, cut his daily beer intake to ten pints. "It's lovely, on the sea," he said. "You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do - all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning. I'm a very good potterer. I shop, I go to the village, and speak to people...