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Then, just when other pitchers were tempted to abandon Hannie's heady stuff, Hannie got his control back. With a curve he learned from Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie, he began whiffing one batter after another. Hannie pitched one no-hitter, two shutouts. The other pitchers kept trying to toss American style, and some improved. But last week, at season's end, none was even close to Hannie's new-found effectiveness. With an average of twelve strikeouts a game, and two international victories (over England and Belgium) to his credit. Pitcher Urbanus hurled his undefeated O.V.V.O. team...
...technique, Levine is an expressionist. He twists figures and features with an El Greco-like abandon, and trowels on hot & cold colors almost as lavishly as Rouault. But Levine dislikes the term: "Expressionism," he says solemnly, "puts too high a premium on subjective reactions...
...next morning, restless Cairo buzzed. Had the split come between the army and its chosen politician? Had Naguib now decided to abandon his nonpolitical "simple soldier" role and to rule in fact instead of by proxy? Emissaries from Egypt's most powerful party, the corrupt Wafd, rushed to Aly's side offering their support should he decide to stand up to the army. But though annoyed by Naguib's counter-proclamation, Aly snapped no and went into conference with the general who later announced that a special committee would synchronize army and government policies...
...what exactly, he asks himself, is he defending? What is his faith? He cannot say. Nor can any of the soldiers at the fort. Some of them are so disillusioned that they abandon the garrison at the first opportunity; many of them are duped into remaining against their will. All of them know that the fort's equipment is obsolete. But few of them worry. The invaders, say the skeptics, will come by a different route; probably they will not come at all. Only a handful of dedicated soldiers really believe in the threat of the North and yearn...
...that the Republicans advocate a global, balanced policy which will treat the peoples of the Far East, Middle East and Africa as equal and first-class members of the free world and not as second-class expendables, which is the Administration policy. The second difference is that we will abandon the policy of containment and will actively develop hope and resistance spirit within the captive peoples, which in my opinion is the only alternative to a general war . . . We will assume a psychological offensive and not be satisfied with a mere defensive policy that demonstratively will not work...