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McGugan has a Command of the finer points of base running that is rare even in the major leagues. The most important factor in base stealing is reading the pitcher's pick-off move, and McGugan concentrates on one particular spot of the pitcher's body. A right-handed pitcher cannot throw to first without lifting his back heel, while a left-hander has to move his back shoulder towards third...
...treaties to the Bundestag for ratification last week. But in the wake of the narrowly won no-confidence test and a subsequent tie vote in the Bundestag on a budget appropriation, he feared that the coalition of his Social Democratic Party and the Free Democrats would no longer command the necessary majority to pass the treaties. Rather than risk a defeat, Brandt postponed balloting for one week so that he and Christian Democrat Leader Barzel could have an opportunity to work out a solution...
...basic research which frequently has civilian uses as well. The company can thus claim that it would have done the research anyway for the civilian market but that it conveniently found military funds to finance the research. For example, ADL currently holds a contract with the Navy Air Systems Command to test the effects of corrosion on metals. This study is as indispensable for the Navy's furture aircraft as another company's production of guns, but Bunting--in true liberal fashion--cannot see the connection...
...women who capture the public imagination today? Angela Davis? Germaine Greer? Shirley Chisholm? Each of them does command unusual attention, but none of them more than two long-dead ladies: Elizabeth I, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, her contemporary and bitter rival. Their sudden popularity is a turn of the popular psyche that befuddles the critics, but, in this day of so-called new politics, Elizabeth and Mary's Old World politics remain as fascinating as ever. Four centuries old, history's most famous catfight still reverberates passionately, and every entertainment...
...scenario came true. The Lakers and the Bucks did meet, but their series rarely generated the anticipated excitement-not even in the seesawing struggle of the seven-footers, Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the vital closing minutes of the decisive sixth game, Chamberlain, 35, took almost humiliating command of 24-year-old Jabbar and led the Lakers to victory...