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...next batter, Bill Cleary, hit a high bouncing grounder over MacKenzie's head, but was nipped by a stride at first...
...Workers won last week what he called-with good reason-a "very historic" victory. For the first time, a large unit of U.S. heavy industry, Ford Motor Co.. accepted at the bargaining table direct responsibility for the partial support of its workmen during layoffs. It was a long stride toward Reuther's goal, the guaranteed annual wage, which would give industrial labor job security and status like that enjoyed by salaried employees...
...cool, skillful technician, completely devoid of Latin temperament, utterly dependent upon his knowledge of engines and his exquisite reflexes, Alberto ("Ciccio")* Ascari finally hit his stride in the auto-racing heyday after World War II. He traveled everywhere-Spain, England, Argentina-and everywhere other drivers ate his dust. He worked up a fine feud with Argentina's Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. In Brazil one day in 1949, he swung too wide on a turn, hit a roadside rock, turned turtle and wound up with a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and three fewer teeth than he started with...
Does Welles-playing Othello, of course-stride on screen to erupt a Shakespearean torrent? Depend on it, the camera will be angled upward from the floor so that Welles looms at least ten feet high while the other actors seem scarcely more than midgets...
...milk and honey on the international front, the largest conceivable cutback in military spending in the near future would be no more than 20%. That would be a cut of about $7 billion, only about half the size of the drop that the nation took in its stride in the past two years. The overall effect of such a cut on the economy would be mild, since military spending even now comes to no more than 10% of the gross national product...