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...Allard had been a starter at the most important position on the football field--quarterback--for nearly four seasons, three in high school and one on the Harvard freshman team. Come sophomore year, he all of a sudden was no better than fourth string, playing back-up to Brian Buckley, Mike Buchanan and a wide receiver named Ron Cuccia. Last season, as a junior, he was the first runner-up, mopping up for Cuccia when the Crimson won big, and entering the tight games on third-and-long when Harvard went into its two-quarterback alignment...
Whiteyball means leading the majors, with the exception of the Rickey Henderson A's, in stolen bases, successfully employing the squeeze play almost two dozen times, and always sending the man home from third it also means third string catcher Glenn Brummer stealing home with two outs in the bottom of the twelfth and speedy Tommy Herr scoring from second on an infield...
Savone plans to take the self-service business a step further by opening a string of franchised salons to be called Hair Mechanico. He proudly proclaims that the new shops will resemble car washes. Says he: "People can have their hair Simonized [have it washed] and remove the rust [get it cut] and have their coils adjusted [have a perm]. They'll pay only for labor and parts." The salons are scheduled to open during the next four months in posh parts of Los Angeles, including Beverly Hills...
...long is long enough for those who ought to be imprisoned? Minnesota's guidelines provide for sentences as long as those ordinarily given in the past. A one-year stayed sentence for first-offense marijuana possession, 27 years for a second-degree murderer with a string of earlier felony convictions. Other jurisdictions will temper justice with less mercy. Jerdell White, 36, a smooth-talking father of five, had been to prison in Texas twice before, for burglary and marijuana convictions. He was convicted in Dallas in 1978 of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and given a life term. In Minnesota...
Someone on cellblock B struck a five-string banjo and began to sing: 'I got those cellblock blues/ I'm feeling blue all the time/ I got those cellblock blues/ Fenced in by walls I can't climb. . .' He was good. The voice and the banjo were loud, clear and true, and brought into that border country the fact that it was a late summer afternoon all over that part of the world. Out the window he could see some underwear and fatigues hung out to dry. They moved in the breeze as if this movement...