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...draw. But, the world being in the delicately balanced state that it is, fine distinctions can be most important. Nothing, except appeasement, is more likely to cause a war than aimless provocation. God knows, we haven't been guilty of appeasement this time. But there is a pattern of unthinking opposition in our foreign policy which is exceedingly dangerous...
Cracking the Code. Their big problem was to crack Michigan's defense code-a highly complex system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...
...Friday, when the Series moved to Ebbets Field, the fans were ready for Brooklyn's usual wide-open, slambang style of play. Instead, for eight innings, the game jogged right along in the pattern : a pitching exhibition between Brooklyn's usually erratic Ralph Branca, who settled down to retire 14 batters in a row and New York's ace-in-the-sleeve Relief Pitcher Joe Page, who replaced Tommy Byrne in the fourth inning...
Future negotiators might be able to answer some of the problems raised by the Ford plan. But the basic pattern had been set. Trying to avoid a fourth round of wage rises, U.S. industry had no alternative but to agree to the large, new experiment in one way or another and hope for the best...
...schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally I was in the copper shops...