Word: swings
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Representatives Charles W. Sandman Jr. (R.-N.J.), Joseph J. Maraziti (R.-N.J.), Wylie Mayne '38 (R.-Iowa) and David W. Dennis (R.-Ind.), all against impeachment, lost their seats in yesterday's election. Rep. Harold V. Froelich (R.-Wisc.), a "swing vote" in the Judiciary Committee hearings who finally voted for impeachment, also lost his seat...
Less visible improvements in equipment have contributed even more dramatically to lowered scores. By thickening the base of club heads, manufacturers have concentrated their weight as low as possible - adding power to even a duffer's swing. But for the final balancing of clubs - necessary to give a set of irons uniform "swing weight" - manufacturers until now have had to load the bottom of the shaft with bits of lead. Now Shamrock Golf Co. of Los Angeles has devised a technique for placing that additional weight in the club head itself - right at the "sweet spot" where metal meets...
...ballistic missiles. But most of all that stomach wall. At one point in the sixth, for a minute and a half, the Master Boxer even covered his face with his gloves and let the titan of punch, the heavy of heavies, the world champion as they once called him, swing at will at that stomach wall...
...Died. Edgar Charles ("Sam") Rice, 84, slight (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.), quick Hall of Fame outfielder who punched out 2,987 base hits (his lifetime batting average was .322) with his choppy swing in two decades (1915-34) of major league play, mostly for the Washington Senators; of cancer; in Silver Spring...
...officially anti-Common Market and should a referendum be held, I would expect the party to strongly recommend British withdrawal. Mr. Lieber's fourth point is certainly his weakest. As in the U.S., British political parties espouse official platforms and Labour's 1974 platform does represent a militant swing to the left compared with its past positions. Whether or not this swing will be translated into action depends on many factors, but it would be wrong to suggest that it hasn't occurred on the level of policy. As to Mr. Wilson's possible successors, the thrust of my whole...