If the inflationary pressures that the Fed moved to relieve this week with its upward nudge to interest rates do not abate, or if the mood on Wall Street should shift, or if investors start to run from the dollar, or if domestic debt turns bad, or all of the above, the economy might look a lot less pretty by polling day than it does now.
Pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in a National League playoff against the rival New York Giants, Branca, who had just come in to relieve starter Don Newcombe with two men on base and the Dodgers holding a 4-2 lead, served up a ninth-inning home run ball to Bobby Thomson.