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Despite my disdain, I went to a baseball game once. It was four years ago--the Chicago Cubs (I'm from Chicago) against the Houston Supersonics, who have very nice multi-colored uniforms. Now, usually the Supersonics play in the Superdome down in Texas, but that day, of course, they had to run, jump, throw and kick in the beautiful confines of Comiskey Field, otherwise known as Cubs Park, where the Cubs always play...
Like the ski parka and the ten-speed bike, multi-hued running shoes have become part of the trappings of the modern American, even if his or her idea of exercise consists only of getting up to turn on the television set to watch the Wide World of Sports. Bearing price tags that range up to $69, the new breed of cushioned rubber athletic shoe has trampled that familiar and often smelly old relic, the sneaker...
With Helen and Teacher, Joseph P. Lash introduces the first multi-perspective, carefully-documented and complete book about the life of one of America's genuine heroines. It is definitive; his book recovers old ground, unearths what others left behind and settles the dust on controversies about Helen Keller's life. He brings to his task an enormous talent for research, a kind and penetrating eye and, most importantly, humanity--a feeling for the influence that one person can have upon another...
Today it seems easy to pick out some clues to the shah's fate that were revealed that day: the small group of Iranian students who called him "oppressive;" the fact that the shah was in the United States to negotiate a multi-million dollar arms deal with the Pentagon; and the shah's remark that ignorance "leaves unutilized a huge human capital." In light of recent events, the shah's speech and the University's decision to bestow an honorary degree upon him seem as ironic as the explanation for his selection one corporation member offered...
...there are signs around the country that other unions are envious of the 50-per-cent representation in pension boards common to the building trades, trucking and other multi-employer industries. The International Chemical Workers have succeeded in placing a watchdog representative on one board and gaining joint control on another. In March the bargaining council of the Communication Workers of America voted to demand "effective union participation in pension fund investment policies...