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...Oakland's manager this spring, he said he had a model for the job. It was not John McGraw, Miller Huggins, Casey Stengel, or any other successful field boss. "The past few years," announced Dark with a straight face, "I've tried to think of how Jesus Christ would handle ballplayers...
Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--at the New Theater just down the street--is another fine play with some similar strengths, about a Christ-figure getting himself crucified by the authoritarian Big Nurse and timid inmates of an insane asylum. I'd go with That Championship Season--it's more naturalistic and strikes even closer to home, I'd say--but maybe that's just my mood...
...When the Nixon family saw King of Kings, "Julie exclaimed, 'It was wonderful! I cried so much.' Tricia said, 'I didn't cry when Christ died--He had suffered so much. I cried during the Sermon on the Mount because it was so beautiful...
With financial support from private foundations, the Episcopal Church and United Church of Christ, Businessman Ronald Grzywinski, 38, bought control of the bank last August and promised to use its assets to salvage declining neighborhoods. Grzywinski and Bank President Milton Davis, 40, have lengthened the bank's hours, added more employees to prevent long lines at tellers' windows, and raised interest rates on savings accounts. This quarter, the bank will show its first gain in six years, and has an nounced plans for a development corpo ration to help save the decaying South Shore...
...parents in La Grange, Ill. No one, he believes, should leave home until he marries. As for the fact that he is an unmarried man dispensing dogma on husband-wife problems and child rearing, Gothard is unworried. Says he: "We have some pretty good precedents for that: Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul...