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...unpaid income taxes that, compounded by penalties and interest, totaled more than $2,500,000. Immigration authorities, ignoring Lias' protests that he was born in Wheeling in 1900, have decided that he was born in Greece, and are prepared to send him back as an undesirable alien once the tax suit is settled...
Even an intentional walk is alien to Robin Roberts' kind of pitching. He plays the percentages, counts on his control to put the ball where the batter can hit it, but not safely. "Take a .333 hitter," says the Phillies' Coach Wally Moses. "Well, he's only going to get a hit once out of three times. Take Willie Mays: he comes up about 500 times a season, and he hits 50 homers. Hell, that's only one in ten. It'd be silly to walk him. Well, Roberts figures those are pretty good odds...
...this handling was a mess." Welfare workers thought that Immigration should have stalled the Russian de parture on a pretext, e.g., the Russians had not made out income tax returns, so that the U.S. could find out whether they were victims of coercion. Immigration replied that freedom for an alien to go home is one of the freedoms of the U.S., and that the Russians had not complained of coercion...
...party has never tolerated and will not tolerate petty bourgeois licentiousness . . . The party cannot permit the freedom of discussing problems to be interpreted as freedom to propagate views alien to the spirit of Marxism-Leninism...
...Gerasimov admitted that "the heritage of impressionism can be used for service to socialist realism." Comradely discipline and social consciousness still rate high. But, said he: "In the inner world of the individual we are far behind the old masters . . . One must not artificially force a theme on artists alien to their line of creation...