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Park is not planning on overemphasizing the team's anemic hitting before the weekend games. "If you dwell on a problem it becomes a psychological hang-up. The boys just need to keep swinging because we know the potential is there...
...according to Lennon, but "people were robbing us and living off us to the tune of £18,000 to £20,000 a week." He also confided that he considers his talents suitable for competition with the likes of Van Gogh, Renoir and Shakespeare. "That's been my hang-up you know?trying to be Shakespeare or whatever it is. Rock just happens to be the medium which I was born into...
Where to Trim. The hang-up is largely political. Because the $19.7 billion bill is $1.1 billion more than President Nixon has requested, he considers it inflationary, and has promised to veto it when it reaches him, probably this week. It was passed by the Senate overwhelmingly (74 to 17) last week and sent to the House for approval of a minor amendment. Congressional Democrats, claiming that they already have cut $5.6 billion from Nixon's requests, rate education as an item of top national priority and prefer that the Administration trim somewhere else in the fight against inflation...
...that Gernreich wants to eradicate all differences in clothing: old folks, he thinks, ought to show their age. "There should be a limit to a person's trying to look younger than he is," says Rudi. "People simply have to get over their youth hang-up and accept their advancing years as a natural process of life." For senior citizens, Rudi has designed boldly patterned, caftan-like robes with stylish simplicity and stunning colors that may well win him more admirers -young and old alike-than his masculine miniskirts and barbered bodies...
Former Captain Fred Brown of Tacoma, Wash., knew Calley for six months while he was on duty in Viet Nam and liked the lieutenant. "He was sort of an all-American boy, a real nice guy. The only hang-up he had was the same one everybody there had, to stay out of the line of fire until you could get home." Says William Thomas, who was dean of boys when Rusty was attending Edison High School: "He was just an average American...