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Earthquakes aside, Hollister has small claim to fame. When Babe Ruth arrogantly pointed his finger toward the outfield wall and then hit a home run to that spot against the Chicago Cubs in 1932, it was a Hollister boy, Charlie Root, who served up the pitch. Motorcyclists have long gathered amid the rolling hills outside town for rallies and roguery. Back in 1947 the bikers rumbled into Hollister and lounged around the main street until some boys from the Elks' Lodge poured beer on them from their second-floor meeting room. The infuriated bikers terrorized the town, riding their...
...have time for just one ballgame, this should be it. The action begins in Lakeland on Friday night at 7:30 and the make-up will be held in Winter Haven on Monday afternoon. Come watch Mark Fidrych sit on the bench and decide who to root...
...freeze was seeping into Thompson Arena, where most of the 5000 seats (all green) were empty, the rink announcer listed the Tigers' scoring in a voice like that of HAL the computer in "2001", and the few Dartmouth students who wandered by were decidedly pro-Princeton ("We can't root for Hahvahd"). And in the waning minutes, Princeton winger Kelly O'Dell pumped in two more goals to secure the Ivy championship...
...Duarte's government a necessity. As one State Department official said. "Let's face it, there are a lot of things we don't like about helping Duarte but we can't just let the Russians do what they want in another country. This outside influence is the root of the problem and has got to top "Leaving aside the argument that economic injustice and not Soviet expansionism constitutes the center of the Salvadoran mess, this point loses whatever validity it had in light of Washington's double standard...
...sure of this: that threatening him with longer, swifter or more certain jail sentences wouldn't make it easier for him to find work. They'd hardly assuage his frustration with "the system"--more likely, those conservative panaceas would only aggravate him more. Only steps that strike at the root of the problem, that try to give the rational criminal real alternative to crime, seem to make sense...