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Pitcher Ron Necciai, 19, of the Class D Appalachian League, looks like a refugee from a basketball team. As he unwinds his lanky (6 ft. 5 in., 185 Ibs.) frame on the pitcher's mound, his earnest contortions have a fatal fascination for batters. They can't seem to keep their eyes on the ball. In his first pitching start for the Bristol (Tenn.) Twins this year, Necciai struck out 20 men. He struck out 19 in his second game. In a relief role, he struck out 11 men in four innings. Last week, mixing a crackling fast...
...pick the time, place and method of aggression anywhere in Asia," said Dulles, "and so long as we only rush ground troops to meet it at the time they select, at the place they select, and with the weapons they select, we are at a disadvantage which can be fatal. On the other hand, the free world possesses, particularly in sea and air power, the capacity to hit an aggressor where it hurts, and at times and places of our own choosing...
...Barcelona to have a look at Spain's civil war and write some pieces about it. A radical in politics and an antiFascist, he decided to fight instead, and enlisted in a militia outfit. Seven months later, badly used up and sporting the scars of a near-fatal bullet hole through his neck, he went back to England and wrote a book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front" that was running Spain. In the U.S., the book wasn...
...second fatal explosion in three months in a U.S. hospital (TIME, Feb. 18). As before, no one knew immediately just what touched off the gas, though static electricity at some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines...
...superb cast is colored with this fatal splendor, as the drama is played out among a group of characters whose violent passions spend themselves like a quick tropical downpour. Their story surges and eddies through a picture that matches the passion and profusion of Conrad's prose...