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Bill Guzzetti, a fast-baller who played JV ball most of last year, and Tom Rucker, a sophomore, are being considered for the third slot, Guzzetti has the speed to collect strikeouts, but like Garibaldi, could use a wider assortment of pitches...
...Criticism is far from unjustified; Powell as usual, has cut no more corners than other Congressmen, but he has cut them far wider than most. The Corps was one of 16 groups to receive grants from the President's Committee on Youth Crime to found anti-delinquency projects last year. Fifteen of these have not been heard from since...
...that "the persistence of immunity induced by the oral [Sabin] vaccine may be of much longer duration than is the case with Salk vaccine and, in fact, the persistence of immunity may conceivably approach that induced by natural infection in type, degree, and duration." And while the AMA urged wider use of Salk injections until Sabin was licensed, it noted that the Sabin protects against both paralytic and non-paralytic polio, whereas the Salk only prevents the former, that Sabin oral vaccine is easier to administer than the Salk needle type, and finally that Salk treatment is "80% or more...
...wave of the future,'' he says. "It is natural, therefore, that Japan should be interested in strengthening economic ties with her Asian neighbors." Hopelessly isolated from joining any of the world's common markets and aware that its phenomenal economic boom cannot last indefinitely without wider trade, Japan desperately needs prosperous neighbors to buy her sophisticated products. She already sends 33% of her exports to Southeast Asia. But to make Asians really big two-way trading partners, Japan must put her money into Asian industry...
...poet's own generation cannot issue him a passport to immortality, even when it would like to. Robert Frost was no literary revolutionary, like Walt Whitman or T. S. Eliot. But he is more controlled and artful than Whitman, less narrowly contemporary than the early Eliot, wider-ranging than that fellow precisionist, Emily Dickinson. Some of these had strengths that were not his, as he had strengths that were not theirs. His own generation can only be sure that he belongs in high company...