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...getting set to powder the ball. If the Phillies' Coach Whitlow Wyatt, who learned his baseball manners as one of Leo Durocher's Dodgers, had his way, Philly pitchers would put the brush-back pitch to constant use. "I think you ought to play it mean," says Whit, "like Durocher did. They ought to hate you on the field." Pitcher Roberts does not fill Coach Wyatt's prescription. "He won't knock down a batter," complains the coach. "Says it don't do him any good, doesn't help him any. Well, it sure...
...hours the dust was gone again and the storm had passed into dry statistics. But beneath the deceptive electric-blue sky that followed, the haunting problem of drought remained-a problem hanging over an unhappy land, so different from the prosperous U.S. around it that it cares not a whit for the stock market, even less for the talk of parity prices and rigid price supports. The heart of the unhappy land is Edwards Plateau, a sheep-and-cattle-grazing area the size of Maine, in south central Texas. Here, day by day, month by month, through five, six, even...
...witnesses, taken 849 pages of testimony, spent $10,000-all the while following meticulously the Senate's instructions to see and hear no evil other than that bearing on the Case case. Last week the committee delivered itself of a weighty verdict that advanced public knowledge not a whit...
Short and stocky, Davis has not let age slow him a whit. He still arrives at his Du Pont Building office in Miami at 9:30 sharp each morning, spends much of his time on inspection tours of his growing empire. He pays his workers well, expects everyone-big and little-to bend to the job. Driving along a dusty farm road one day, the story goes, Davis ordered his chauffeur to stop beside a laborer leaning on his shovel. Said Davis: "Are you supposed to be working for me?" Drawled the man: "Yes, sir. I sure...
...atom and the cold war made even heavier demands on technical and scientific research. Alongside Cambridge's 21 tradition-bound colleges, new shiny laboratories sprang up, and an army of efficient, white-coated researchers invaded the ancient city. Most of them did not seem to care one whit for college traditions. Of the ten new departments founded since the war, seven are scientific. The number of research students has jumped from...