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Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.), "Old Stoneface" Hutchinson has the shoulders of a longshoreman and a face that might have been sculpted by Modigliani. He has been known to terrify rookie ballplayers merely by staring at them, and his temper tantrums are monumental: enraged by the loss of a close game, he has attacked the dugout watercooler, ripped his uniform to shreds, and pounded a concrete wall until his knuckles were bruised and bleeding. When Hutchinson was pitching for Detroit, recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed...
...spittoon. He takes careful notes during pregame batting and fielding practice. "That way," he says, "I might notice that one of their guys is hurt, or pick up one or two other little things." Like Hutchinson. Houk has a fierce tem per-but he usually keeps it in check. "Temper hurt me a time or two as a player," he says. "I knew it wasn't going to help the club, so I said. 'Well, hell, let's put a rope on it.' I don't say I've licked...
Israel's general election last week was conducted in a peculiar mood of pettishness and bad temper. In one Galilean village, 201 ballots were invalidated because they proved to be one-fifth of an inch smaller than regulation size. Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem refused to enter a polling place that had once been a Christian church and still bore across. Tel Aviv election officials were shocked when voters, en route to the beach, voted while wearing bikinis and swimming trunks...
...voted him the best ball caller in the business. Relying on his "fast thumb" (he once ejected 18 players from an exhibition game), Dascoli insisted on absolute obedience in every game he worked. But good as he was, Dascoli committed the umpire's unforgivable sin: he lost his temper in public. Fortnight ago, for calling National League President Warren Giles "incompetent and spineless," Dascoli was summarily dismissed. Explained Giles, who is also a fast man with a thumb: "The best umpire is the most inconspicuous-except when he's calling a play...
While two fashion greats, Balenciaga and Givenchy, are still to be heard from, there is little even they can do to temper the new S-shape. But when the conventional alphabet is exhausted, tomorrow's woman may very well look like a la mode...