Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where do you look to find a successor? One theory is that pennants are won by the men up the middle. But Cleveland's Joe Azcue is the league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory days of Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Wes Westrum, and Del Crandall. Around the Keystone, the league's best combinations belong to California (Fregosi-Knoop) and Kansas City (Campaneris-Green). How many people could match Gil, Oyler, Johnson, Carew, and Adair with the pennant contender for which each is starting second baseman...
...that Serbian students in Croatia be taught in their home language. Newspapers in both republics were soon filled with blistering editorials, letters and articles. In Croatia, factories, government agencies and schools began organizing anti-Serbian protests. It may have seemed like just a harmless dispute, but Tito knows how weak are the ties that bind Yugoslavia's six republics and how strong the regional rivalries. Fearing, the political consequences of the squabble, he blew the whistle...
...come and go, but there is a malaise in the TV industry that lingers on: the feverish pursuit of profits at the expense of public service. In a new book, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control* former CBS News President Fred Friendly takes the TV pulse and finds it weak indeed...
...Baby Face and Japanese Sandman. But when nostalgia dims, so does the picture's brightness. The new songs by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn are tepid at best, and Joe Layton's dance interludes are as spurious as bathtub gin, introduced solely to juice up a weak scenario...
...psychiatrists warn that the value is limited. Strong-egoed subjects, for example, are apt to be largely unaffected by the drugs. Those most susceptible, the weak-willed and guilt-ridden, may succumb so completely, says Psychiatrist Fredrick Redlich, Yale's new medical dean (TIME, March 24), that they say what they sense their interrogator wants to hear. This can confound even highly trained psychiatrists. Truth drugs, says Redlich, put patients in "a twilight zone where it is very difficult to tell truth from fantasy." Some people, in fact, can lie at will under the truth drugs. In an experiment...