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...board tells me not to worry," sighs University of Utah Senior John Becker, 22, who has not yet been classified. "That's very comforting, but all the time you know they've got your file in front of them with their little rubber 1A stamp in their hand." Gripes Jeffrey Anderson, 23, a graduating history major at the University of California at Berkeley: "There just isn't any communication between the draft board and the individual. When I settle down with a family, I'm going to see about improving the local draft board system...
...really successful or I was in the wrong profession. Maybe the problem was that I never had a burning ambition to be a baseball player. If I had, I might have realized sooner just how much work was involved." In 1961 Sandy knuckled down. From Dodger Coach Joe Becker, he learned to keep his right shoulder "open"-away from the direction of the pitch, to rock forward with each pitch, to hide his left hand in his glove to avoid exposing the ball while he was winding up. That seemed to be all there was to it. Practically overnight, Koufax...
...court achieved something significantly different in the case of Belgian Journalist Raymond De Becker, a wartime German collaborator who had been deprived for life of most of his civil liberties. The very fact that the court was pondering the Belgian law that authorized De Becker's fate prodded Belgium into striking it off the books-thus rendering the case moot...
...Becker confided in Teammate and Partner Dorothy Hayden. She watched the Englishmen too, and agreed with Becker. Still uncertain, they passed their suspicions on to New York Times Bridge Columnist Alan Truscott and to non-playing U.S. Team Captain John Gerber. All four observed Reese and Schapiro closely; all concurred...
...Code. Late that night, Becker, Mrs. Hayden and Truscott met privately and went to work on the finger code itself. It was Mrs. Hayden who broke it. "Let's see," she said, "on that hand he held up one finger; his hand showed only one heart. Maybe this holds true for other hands." Checking the records of past hands against notes that they had made during the observations, the trio found the pattern. One finger meant a singleton heart. Two fingers together meant two hearts; two spread in a V shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts...