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Even so, the big bad Birds of Baltimore, heralded by most everyone save the Pirates as the best team in baseball, proved fallible. In Pittsburgh, they were held to a miserly nine hits and four runs through three games. Afield, Baltimore's play was even more disastrous -a wild pitch here, a passed ball there and bobbled grounders everywhere. In all, the Orioles committed five errors, two of them by Mr. Golden Glove himself, Third Baseman Brooks Robinson...
...Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision would be based not on the dictates of politics, but drawn out of that fuzzy world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will go far afield in looking for the situation where the ay or nay is clear and one has only to follow. Repression is a siren with a loud wail and a jailer's heart. Harris hears in the distance police sirens coming for America...
...coordinate information about where jobs are available. Concerned with the high youth unemployment rate (about 17%), this spring's White House Conference on Youth proposed commissioning an agency like NASA to develop a huge computerized network of job information. Guidance counselors in schools and colleges, who have wandered far afield (some even giving students therapy), should also quite literally get back to work. "The decline in demand for teachers started five years ago," complains a senior at Northeastern. "Someone should have warned us." There are already new efforts along this line, and some school systems, trying to do their utmost...
Though he is also a novelist, Michener does not show a disciplined novelist's skills in the telling of this fatal drama. His account is disorganized and repetitious. It runs pretty far afield, too, variously embracing such things as Michener's view of faculty tenure (he is against it) and the origins of Opalocka, Fla., home town of the famous runaway teen-ager photographed grieving over one of the dead students...
...Last week talks between the companies and six Persian Gulf members of OPEC broke down, precipitating the most serious international oil scare in years. Western government and oil-company officials nervously pored over refinery records, maps of tanker routes and intelligence reports from their agents afield to determine how much oil they had on hand -and where they could get more...