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...year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack of midseason bumbling let the Dodgers and the Giants shake down into solid contenders...
...person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind of disciplined vigor that belied tales of the decadent and limp-wristed West...
...Empire State Music Festival owes much of its vigor to Minnesota-born Impresario Frank Forest, 54. Forest studied agricultural engineering at the University of Minnesota, later helped found a profitable pharmaceutical firm (White Laboratories of Kenilworth, N.J.), gave up business to follow a lifelong interest in singing. He spent twelve years performing leading tenor roles in opera houses all over Europe, also appeared in a number of films (Champagne Waltz, I'll Take Romance with Grace Moore). In 1955 he started pouring his energies and money into the creation of the Empire State Festival...
...France, and even some of the underdeveloped nations. This would be done by creating an International Development Association, dubbed "Ida." Ida was introduced to last fall's meeting of the World Bank (TIME, Oct. 20), but failed to get far because the U.S. did not push it with vigor. Now the U.S. expects to plump hard for Ida at the World Bank's September meeting in Washington, set it up with initial capital of $1 billion (one-third contributed by the U.S.) by late 1960, gradually make it shift more and more of the aid burden from individual...
Uhlan Letter to Author: "The editorial reports that have come to my attention have been most favorable. After going over it myself, I am pleased to find that I agree with what has been said. Two Years Under Arms is a tribute to the enthusiasm, the vigor, the beauty of youth...