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...Hang In There." To understand the warmth with which Philadelphia greeted its tail-dragging homecomers is to understand the spirit of a city that somehow extracts pleasure from defeat. Just as Yankee fans expect a winner, Phillie fans have learned to expect a loser. The Phillies seldom let them down. No other major league team has lost 100 games a season so many times (13). No other National League club has won the pennant so rarely (twice). No other ball team begins a season with such little promise and ends it in such profound despair...
...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...
...Will Die. This twist of the tiger's tail was one too many. With a savagery that stunned the Tunisians, the French struck back. Jet airplanes thundered down on roadblocks, blasting them with rockets. Tunisian troops, armed with rifles and light machine guns, were flattened under barrages from 105-mm. howitzers. Evidently disregarding orders from Paris-a tradition with the French army-tanks and armored cars roared 15 miles outside the Bizerte base. Tanks sprayed bullets into the town of Menzel-Bourguiba, nine miles from Bizerte, where the French maintain an arsenal and shipyard. Soon there were 27 Tunisian...
...rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
...m.p.h., long-range interceptors comparable to U.S. F-104 and F106 fighters. But one of the Russian planes had a new twist unlike anything in the U.S. hardware field: a liquid-fuel rocket booster under its tail, designed to give it tremendous, straight-up climbing power and speed in a pinch...