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...team well supplied with dependable starters, he may dawdle unnoticed day after day on the bullpen bench, get his exercise only by pitching batting practice. Not on the floundering Cubs. Elston pops up and down like a jack-in-the-box during games, warming up, anticipating a frantic signal from the dugout. He is called in most often when the Cubs' predicament is most precarious-e.g., in the late innings, with men on base, the score tied and the opposing team's power hitter at the plate. "The main thing," says Pitcher Elston, "is temperament. A starting...
...forget the little fellow, contracts have been given to firms that were either incompetent or underfinanced. At the Offutt Air Base launching site near Omaha, the construction contract was awarded to a builder who in one Pentagonian's words "didn't even own a wheelbarrow." His frantic efforts to subcontract the entire job produced such confusion and delay that the Air Force ruled that henceforth a contractor must be able to do at least 20% of the work with his own organization...
...Kennedy has evolved from U-2 to me-too, strengthened Castro, and made the U.S. and its unintelligence service the laughingstock of the world-amidst new threats of direct military intervention and a frantic quest for testimonials from Goldwater and Nixon, from Eisenhower and Truman and Rockefeller. President Kennedy has taken the official blame but is busy trying to establish a future innocence-by-association...
According to the steamy 24-sheets, Return "begins where Peyton Place left off." The main characters, though portrayed by different actors, are the same, and so is the theme that the nicest people have the filthiest minds. The plot is obviously patterned on the author's own frantic life. Like Author Metalious. Heroine Allison (Carol Lynley) writes a naughty bestseller about life in her own home town, makes a stack of chips and a mess of trouble. Because of the book, her stepfather (Robert Sterling), principal of the local high school, loses his job-in real life, the author...
...Floored twice in the first round by the surprise attack of Ingemar Johansson, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson rallied to deck the Swedish challenger in the same wild round, nailed like a frantic amateur until he finally knocked out his man in the sixth to win their rubber match and retain the title at Miami Beach. ¶ New York police began uncovering another major college basketball scandal by arresting two smalltime operators named Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken for paying $1,500 to a player for the University of Connecticut and $1,000 each to two players for Seton Hall...