Word: halfway
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Fireballing Fernando Gonzalez was the winner of that game, but said that the defense deserved most of the credit. Jim Fabiani, one of the most versatile athletes in the House, smashed a roller halfway to third base to start Quincy's four run rally in the last inning, and Eliot's errors and a single by catcher Bob Teske did the rest. Luck, Not skill...
...Vatican bureaucracy were held by Italian prelates; now, only eight top posts are held by Italians. "This is what we have been demanding," said John Cardinal Wright of Pittsburgh, one of four Americans who received their red birettas last week. "The Pope is meeting us more than halfway." Cardinal Wright was appointed to succeed Villot as Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, a job that grows more sensitive as the clergy grow more restive...
...high-flying Crimson built up a 6-4 lead halfway into the second quarter, and then Jim Kilkowasy, Phil Zuckerman, and Rick Frisbee registered quick goals to give Harvard a 9-4 halftime bulge...
Cats by the Tail. Why did Ayub step down? The President sounded particularly bitter toward his political opponents, whom he blamed for bringing on the nation's paralysis. He had halfway acceded to their demands by agreeing to make way for a British-style parliamentary government to be elected by universal suffrage around the turn of the year. Having won that much, both East and West Pakistani politicians, though still as divided among themselves as when Ayub once dismissed them as "five cats tied by their tails," were emboldened to press on. Not wanting to wait for the promised...
Disappointingly, the Nixon Administration has so far indicated only that it will back tighter restrictions on con glomerate mergers, part-time farmers and foundations. If Congress cannot agree on a basic way to correct today's inequities, it may unfortunately choose a halfway approach suggested by Stanley Surrey. He would require all earn ers to pay at least a minimum tax at rates approximately one-half of normal, thus putting a ceiling on the benefits of tax preferences. In return, no person would have to pay more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials...