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...excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like an oak, flexes his shoulder muscles by whipping the bat horizontally up and behind his head, crouches slightly, and fixes the pitcher with a steady stare from his dark brown eyes...
Probing into farmers' political opinions, Lubell found a Democratic trend still running in the Midwest, but scant enthusiasm for Democratic presidential hopefuls. Adlai Stevenson's defeats in '52 and '56 count against him, Lubell found. "A blank stare was often the reaction I got to the names of [Minnesota's] Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, [Missouri's] Stuart Symington and [Texas'] Lyndon B. Johnson." Of all the Democratic hopefuls, Massachusetts' "John F. Kennedy emerges as almost the only one who stirs any real public interest." Among Republican voters, "Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
...invading aircraft (giving the R.A.F. a big advantage in the Battle of Britain), but they were not much good on smaller targets. Modern radar is vastly more sophisticated, and a wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
Towering over the sidewalk in front of eastern Santiago's city hall is a 40-ft. billboard showing the major landholdings of Oriente province. Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched...
...London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey-haired, 49-year-old widow-could not keep the delicious secret. She winked at Liberace. All over the courtroom the middle-aged motherly doves twittered...