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...LONGEST GAME...
...Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings participated in the longest game in organized baseball history Saturday night, an eight-hour, 32-inning affair that isn't over--it will be continued when the teams next meet in Pawtucket on June 23. Racking up 212 at bats the two teams struck out a total of 56 times, also an all-time record. Chico Walker, whose one-for-13 day could have been spread over a week-long slump, scored the two-out, ninth inning run that put the game into extra innings. When informed the game would be continued...
...Bituminous Coal Operators' Association and submitted the pact for ratification to the union's feisty rank and file, the U.M.W.'s 160,000 soft-coal miners overwhelmingly rejected it. Workers and employers then began digging in for what suddenly promised to be a prolonged strike. The longest on record: the U.M.W.'s 111-day walkout in 1977 and early...
...industry's "obsession with demographics has produced mass-market films-and people finally get used to what they're fed." Universal's Tanen, 49, sees today's audience as "young, cynical, smart-ass and jaded." Paramount's Barry Diller, 39, who has the longest tenure of any current top studio boss (six years), shrugs and says, "We are in a relatively uninteresting period. It goes in cycles...
...prepared to pick up the bodies," said the chilling voice. "If my demands are not met by the ultimatum, I will shoot the Americans." That threat, spoken in accented English over the Damascus airport radio one day last week, was the worst moment of one of the longest-running hijackings ever, a thirteen-day nightmare for more than 100 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720. Hijacked during a domestic flight, the plane had been forced to fly first to Kabul, Afghanistan, then on to Damascus, Syria...