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...this reviewer grew up on the plains of Kansas, and although she hates to cop out on questions of social relevance, she figures that the playwright wouldn't set any store by the understanding of a Midwestern hick. For Horovitz the Bronx seems to be emblematic of a couple of delinquents hazing an uncomprehending immigrant and each other on a street corner after everyone else in town has scurried into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth...
...everyday life. The frantic caravans of Ford and Carter, no matter how fast and how far they go, will touch directly only a minuscule number of people. The rest of the voters will watch calmly from their living rooms and dens. The morning coffee groups in Wichita and The Bronx may be the most important political forums in the country right now, says one expert. Listen to the Catholic sermons this Sunday, advises Harris. They could be crucial...
...still go out of their way to bank at First Women's. Some 75% of its more than 6,000 checking-account customers are women, although many of the accounts are small and inactive. Lourdes Rosa, 30, an office manager, frequently makes a long subway trip from her Bronx home to First Women's because the bank gave her a furniture loan and she finds its atmosphere "much friendlier than other banks...
Base-hit bleeders, bad hops in the infield, and rare errors by Joe Morgan and Dave Conception paved a yellow brick basepath early for the Yankees. However, the best the Bronx Bombers could manage were two scattered runs in the first and fifth innings on clutch hits by Chris Chambliss and Thurman Munson...
...Orioles were plagued with contract problems and never really got started. And the Royals might have won except for a bad call in the ninth inning of the last game. But for the sake of purity, the Reds must stem the unpure tide from the Bronx. I predict that the series will go no less than four game, nor more than seven. And the Reds are going to win most of the games...