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After seeking all sorts of remedies for my miserable 5-7 record following the weird first two weeks of predicting, I headed to the Harvard Pro last Friday night and purchased a six-pack of Schlitz sixteen-ouncers. Downing three of the tall-boys before making my picks, I ended up with six right, zero wrong...
...Sixteen once again proved to be the magic number in Kansas City yesterday as the Royals roared back to life in Game Two of the American League playoffs, smothering the New York Yankees by a 10-4 score and evening the series at one game apiece...
...hundred sixteen Roman Catholic Cardinals round the world will get an unusual item in their mail this week: a 300-page book containing "dossiers" on all 116, who some day will enter a conclave and, from among their ranks, elect the next Pope. The book, The Inner Elite: Dossiers of Papal Candidates ($12.95), is but the beginning. The publisher, Sheed Andrews & McMeel, is also putting out a cheeky monthly newsletter, Conclave Confidential, which for $30 a year offers the latest scuttlebutt on papal "candidates" and Vatican politicking. Next to come: computerized game plans on ways the conclave might develop...
Weak arms tucking a three-month-old child Sixteen and hunched half over the bed and half over the love magazine spread on the low table She chews then moves belly first. shifting her curlers Blowing the smoke from her lungs as the morning shudders through the caked slit by the door...
Students in other Houses also take an interest in the resident children and many children are accustomed to seeing students on a regular basis. Sixteen-month-old Alexander Dunn looks forward to greeting visitors to the Master's sherry hours; although he cannot yet remember or pronounce many names, the child recognizes faces and greets everyone with "Hi, boys! Hi, girls!" He refers to sherry hours as "potato chip time," because students like to feed him munchies on request...