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...Englanders, the world is divided into two parts: New England and elsewhere. Because the Red Sox are the lone baseball team to inhabit this hallowed ground, it has been assumed by local fans that they must be perfect, and that only the cruel workings of fate could prevent them from winning the pennant. Fate has been awfully cruel for the last 20 years...
...place. Nine of the 14 Cabinet members were abroad taking "health cures," talking with other Arab leaders or simply salting away their money in foreign banks. Four others were missing-either kidnaped by nationalist rebels or in hiding. That left Hussein Ali Bayoomi, the Information Minister, as almost the lone government official in the deserted federal capital of Al Ittihad. "The government is finished," said Bayoomi. "It is gone with the wind...
...would allow it to pull away in the final three weeks. The Chicago White Sox have solid pitching, but they also have a team batting average of .229. The Boston Red Sox can hit, but their pitching is so shaky that Manager Dick Williams is talking about using his lone ace, Righthander Jim Lonborg (record: 19-7), every two days. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers need heavy slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last week, Minnesota's Killebrew had clouted only three home runs in his last 68 times...
While the unflappable and genial Dungan, 44, is ideally suited to the challenge of luring professorial talent into New Jersey, he will have to use all of his skills in salesmanship. The state has a deserved reputation for penny-pinching in running its colleges and its lone public university, Rutgers. It recently ranked 46th among the states in per capita support of higher education. The situation was so bad that a committee headed by Princeton President Robert F. Goheen last year urged a complete reorganization of the system. Pushed by Governor Richard Hughes, the New Jersey legislature enacted reforms, took...
...lone bird flying at midday in search of a rabbit...