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Baseball is a tricky business.

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

After the long years of trying, after the rebuffs that kept her out of tournaments she might have won, after the jitters that kept her from titles she should have won, the match that meant most of all was astonishingly easy. On the slick and tricky turf of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Easy After All | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

It was a different story when Althea made her Forest Hills debut in 1950, the first Negro ever to be invited to the U.S.L.T.A.'s national championships. For a few days, Althea was too good to be true. The tricky turf courts of tradition seemed to hold no surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Schmidt chose a varied program wholly devoted to intriguing and rather out-of-the-way items. The opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Singers Make Fine Music | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

The U.S. nuclear navy is growing so fast, says the trade magazine Nucleonics, that its demand for reactors and other tricky equipment is threatening to block the development of peaceful nuclear power. The Navy's building program, which passed Congress last week, calls for 30 seagoing reactors and six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Atom Goes to Sea | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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