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...symbol on the reel farthest to his left. Then, after inserting another coin, he gingerly eases the handle forward until he feels tension, pauses, eases the handle even more gingerly farther down until he hears two clicks, returns handle to its normal position and gives it a sharp, final yank. If expertly performed, this maneuver freezes the lefthand symbol, usually brings up a corresponding symbol on the second reel as well. If not, repetition of the process-and more change-will. A few more coins, a few more pulls to bring the third reel round, and hi-ho, Silver...
With one out in the fifth inning, Gibson hit a blooper into left field; Tom Tresh raced in, got a glove on the ball--and couldn't hold it. Curt Flood then rapped a tailor-made double play ball to Yank second baseman Bobby Richardson--who couldn't hold it either. Lou Brock singled Gibson home, and then Bill White hit a bounder to Richardson which should have ended the inning with a double play, but the relay to first was slow and Brock scored from third...
...KITAJ, 32 (he never uses his given names, Ronald Brooks), is a Yank, actually. Cleveland-born, Kitaj (rhymes with knee-high) is a brusque, opinionated intellectual who acknowledges the influence of the surrealists, and has "always been devoted to De Kooning, Clyfford Still and Pollock." Unlike them, he believes that painting should have subject matter. "The picture always takes over," says Kitaj, "but you can't help being moved by the great cultural issues peripheral to the picture." He carefully divides his time between reading and painting, produces barely ten canvases a year. In his earlier work the periphery...
...Roger Maris perked up remarkably (five homers in the last nine games) when he read that "Yankee sources" were hinting at a trade. Up from Richmond (somebody is always coming up from Richmond) came Rookie Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, 22, to win nine crucial games, including the eleventh in the Yank streak, a two-hit shutout during which he personally outdid Washington batsmen with five singles, two R.B.I.s. Over from Cleveland came Pedro Ramos, the Cuban "palm-bailer," meaning spit-bailer: he won one game and saved five others-including two against Cleveland last week...
High ho, yodeled Robert Strange McNamara, 48, as he dusted off his trusty crampons, eased himself into his climbing knickers, and prepared to melt some solid Pentagon flesh in an assault on the 14,701-ft. Matterhorn. With his son Robert Craig, 14, and a dauntless Yank quintet whom Swiss whiz kids tagged "McNamara's Band," the Defense Secretary slogged up to within 2,000 ft. of the summit, where a 2-ft. snowfall programmed the computers to say no go. Back to base camp...