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...wasn't a relief pitcher for the Tigers. But the days of beanball wars are over: even the designated hitter rule, which theoretically lets pitchers zap people with impunity (they themselves don't have to bat), hasn't changed that. No, the ball must have slipped; Rice didn't duck back quick enough. He even went to first and came around to score later than inning, and batted two more times before they took him out of the game. There wasn't even the rush of sudden tragedy, then--one read about it the next morning, a nightmare you squelch...
...brought up the previously published quote, "They've asked me everything but how often I sleep with my husband, and if they'd asked me that, I would have told them," and then asked for a response. Rather than duck the question she answered with humor, "As often as possible." At no time have I heard Mrs. Ford volunteer any smart quips on any of the many subjects the press is currently chastising...
...electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, he used his scientific training in one of his early assignments in journalism, covering Midwestern tornadoes-and trying to explain their cause-for LIFE. "I saw some terrible scenes," Jaroff says, "but at least people had a little warning and could duck into storm shelters. When an earthquake strikes, there is no place to hide." Golden drew on an expertise in geology that he began cultivating years ago as a student at the Bronx High School of Science. A denizen of New York City's high-rises, he finds the whole subject...
...declined to sign the order, fearing that it would wreck the negotiations he was trying to maintain between the board and the strikers. "I'm so angry I can't speak," snapped Board President Dianne Feinstein, a candidate for Alioto's job when the lame-duck mayor's second four-year term expires in January. Replied Alioto: "That's the best speech she's ever made." Somehow, though, the city's divided authorities got together long enough to head off a strike by 1,900 transit workers that had been threatened...
...score and its Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen choreography. A lot of people who have never seen the movie in its entirety have managed to catch a tantalizing glimpse of the title number--three or four minutes of sheer, unadulterated joy, with Gene Kelly splashing around like an ecstatic, acrobatic duck through foot-deep puddles and grinning idiotically under a rainpipe's torrent...