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...polls to decide whether to renew Diefenbaker's mandate or return to office what the opposition calls the "Liberal Team" led by onetime External Affairs Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, 65 - or possibly give neither a clear majority in what is starting off as the tightest Canadian election race this century...
...Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran Screwballer Luis Arroyo, 34, has become the finest Yankee relief pitcher since "Fireman Joe" Page. The infield was the tightest in baseball, and the Yanks led the league in just about everything that counted: runs, home runs and double plays...
...dresses are diagonally, often dizzily, detailed by wildly flying panels, bias cuts, tricky scarf necklines. Even Dior's Marc Bohan, who tends to flout the trends, does away with the bulky silhouette; although he concentrates less on S-lines than his colleagues, Bohan's fashions are the tightest, slenderest, most feminine of all. His decidedly youthful designs feature slim, high-bosomed bodices, gently flared skirts, wide cinch-belts and narrow shoulders...
...Just the right incident," says Detroit Urban League Vocational Director Ernest Brown, "can be the bomb." Chicago, where tempers are tightest, has had three bombs: white violence against Negroes who took fire refuge in a white church (TIME, July 7); Negro wade-ins at all-white Rainbow Beach, where the sight of white demonstrators being dragged off by Negro cops did little to ease tensions; an unsolved Lawndale shooting, which Negroes blame on white youths...
...first time he saw a water tap he turned it on in a matter of seconds, and the first time he saw a zipper-zing! it was open before Maxwell could lift a finger. He quickly learned to trot around London on a leash, sniff at fireplugs, untie the tightest knot with his teeth, and sleep on his back with his arms outside the covers just as his master did. And whenever Maxwell overslept, Mij darted beneath the covers, ripped them loose and stole the pillow...