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Salesman had its flaws. The scenes between the agonized Loman sons-alternately hating and loving the man who had filled them full of ballooning, worthless dreams-were edgy rather than sharp. And television's code blunted many of the play's sharpest lines (even "By God, I was rich" became "By George, I was rich"), needlessly sacrificing Miller's most formidable faculty: language...
...Huskies' prime asset is the sharpest pair of southpaws in Massachusetts, senior Steve Grolnic and sophomore Ed McCarty. Grolnic, who will face Harvard, is 6-2 with a 2.32 earned run average and 83 strikeouts in 58 innings...
...usual, the French President last week got in the sharpest jabs. In answer to West Germany's insistence that France may keep its 27,000 troops and airmen in Germany only if they accept a role in common-defense planning, De Gaulle had his Secretary of Information pass the word that "France does not want to keep her troops in Germany anyhow." Actually, France does-if for no other reason than the prestige of maintaining a watch east of the Rhine. What concessions De Gaulle might make in exchange were still an open question. But it was clear that...
...President honed his sharpest barbs for those critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
...year in federal subsidies, the U.S. maritime industry has been drifting toward economic shipwreck for 20 years. Partly because the Government pays 72? out of every $1 in wages earned aboard subsidized ships, their operators have felt little spur to cut costs and improve services. Some of the sharpest criticism comes from the inside. Says Vice President Joseph A. Medernach of Moore-McCormack Lines: "The industry is one of the most backward, stodgiest and stuffiest businesses around...