Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independents and dissident Democrats across the U.S., not to mention a powerful pull in New York and the other Eastern seaboard states. Last week a couple of high-level comments brought Rocky's name once more to the fore. In New York, Dick Nixon's good friend Tom Dewey warmly endorsed Rockefeller for Vice President, and at his Washington press conference, President Eisenhower added a cautious amen: "If Mr. Rockefeller were nominated, he would be one that would be acceptable to me." But Rocky coldly rejected any such suggestions. "I absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, would...
...into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year (8-19). This spring, with Friend apparently back on the track, the Pirates ripped off ten straight victories...
Gene is a clever student, and Phineas laughs his way to a C average, but Gene takes no comfort from his crumb of superiority. His friend's perfection galls him. Worse, Phineas has begun to prod Gene to follow him in nonsensical feats of daring. The athlete fearlessly climbs a tall tree by a riverbank, walks the length of a limb, and leaps far out into safe, deep water. Gene queasily repeats the stunt, and bitterly resents the compulsion that makes him do it. Soon Gene comes to suspect that everything Phineas does is calculated to humiliate...
...limb, and Gene grimly clutches the trunk.. Abruptly the athlete falls. In the minutes that follow, as Phineas is carried to the infirmary with a shattered leg, ¶Gene tries to shut away a terrifying fact: in an instant of hatred, he had jounced the limb his friend was standing...
...never had a decent job, has always instinctively looked for the softest touch-and in his heart he knows that his own weakness has always been the enemy. His girl has walked out on him, and his best friend is stalking her. But he still has his looks, his tenuous charm. For a time it seems that his love for a nurse will pull him out of his resentment and self-pity; but she recognizes that any wife of Dick's is bound to become a mere crutch. At the end, the author unconvincingly suggests that Dick...