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...year secretary of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers' San Francisco Local 4-biggest in the U.S.-he commanded the unwavering allegiance of nearly all 2,600 local members. Wilson, 40, was parted from that job on April 5, when shotgun blasts tore into his chest and shattered his skull...
...said yes. The officers produced first a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, which he caught in midair; it barely touched his hands and went sailing back, torn crosswise from the back into two pieces. They handed him a 1,700-page dictionary, and he grasped it by the back and slowly tore it into two pieces, the tear going through every page and covers, without once taking his hands off. As an encore, he took a U.S. half dollar and between thumb and fingers, bent it double...
...16th season, was playing with his shaky legs encased in tape; his right shoulder was still sore after an operation for a bone chip, and he had yet to hit his first home run. Roger Maris, 31, the second half of the M. & M. twins who tore the league apart a few years ago, sat out 116 games last year because of injuries. He seems healthy enough now, but his batting average is a minuscule .179. Then there is Pitcher Whitey Ford, 37, winner of 232 games in 14 years. Whitey says his left arm is as good as ever...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House is destined for the wrecker's ball in May-that is, if it lasts that long. Last week the visiting Bolshoi Ballet practically tore down the house all by itself. Most of the acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends...
...face red with anger, Ford tore into Lawyer Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed and the industry's most persistent critic. Said Ford: "Frankly, I don't think he knows very much about automobiles. He can read statistics and he can look up a lot of facts that are in the public domain, and he can write books, but I don't think he knows anything about engineering safety into automobiles...