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Pitching for the Cardinals, champions of the National League and defending World Champions, Bob Gibson has earned the reverence of opposing hitters. The 32-year-old right hander, who won three games in last year's series, strung together 15 straight victories this summer, including 10 shutouts. Gibson set a National League record by posting an ornery 1.12 earned-run average while winning a total of 22 games...
...people have been exterminated, many by savage methods, since the first Peking general moved into Lhasa's Palace of the Gods. In a few cases, entire villages have been machine-gunned. So many still seek to escape the reign of terror by suicide that the Chinese have strung barbed-wire barricades along the banks of the Kyichu (River of Happiness) to keep people from throwing themselves in. At least 80,000 Tibetans, including the god-king Dalai Lama, have chosen exile. Another 200,000, including his deputy, the Panchen Lama, have been imprisoned or enslaved in forced-labor brigades...
...most destructive comedy (as the program notes fashionably term the entire play) in the last few scenes, Schmidt reverses the entire style of his own production to heavy and symbolic drama, groping I presume for an ending via sudden spurts of electronic music and taped dialogue replays. Hector is strung up before our very eyes, the lighting goes all blood red in back of him a rewrite of the text overemphasizes the ironies of love and war, and everything soars to a climax...
...interludes and the dreary view from the airliner's ports afforded a rare peek at the Kuriles, which Russia has guarded with xenophobic jealousy ever since the islands were seized as booty from Japan after World War II. A mist-shrouded necklet of 50 volcanic islets, the Kuriles are strung strategically from within seven miles of Hokkaido to seven miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, who took...
Like the steel racket, "the Smasher," as Spalding calls it, is open-throated to cut wind resistance, increase the speed and power of a player's swing. Unlike the T2000, which has its strings attached to a crown inside the frame, the aluminum racket is strung conventionally, through nylon-lined holes in the racket's head. This increases the size of the "sweet spot," the area of the racket face on which the ball can be hit with good effect, and makes the racket less likely to spin or twist on shots hit near...