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Shuttling into the ballpark, New York Democratic State Chairman Patrick J. Cunningham strode quickly, hoping after weeks of indictments and political tightrope-walking, to be lost in the crowd. He had built the new stadium as much as anyone, profited more than most. Cunningham was general counsel to the Yankees as well as party chairman, and there were those (most cogently, Jack Newfield of the Village Voice) who said maybe he had mixed his functions, more than a little. "The stadium is going to cost the city $24 million and six judgeships," New York's city council president had said...
Jeff Campbell and Stein Rafto strode to an impressive 1-2 finish in the mile against the Cavaliers, while Joel Peters won the half-mile in 1:53.4 and Sam Butler came away with victories in the 440 (48.9) and the intermediate hurdles...
Colleagues say Korda is fond of role playing. After the opening of the movie The Man Who Would Be King, friends found him playing the sergeant major. Once he strode into a sales convention in full fox-hunting gear, blowing a hunting horn and proceeding to present a book on the Maryland hunting set. Says one associate: "It was not humor. It was Korda's chance to display his sense of costume and class...
...acidly (but accurately) observed that "most of the governments represented do not themselves govern by consent of their citizens." He then quoted a plea by dissident Russian Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. At this, the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik strode out in protest...
...were most concerned with when they had their turn in the field. As batters stroked shot after shot either off the Green Monster or into the screen that tops it, outfielders tossed baseballs against the wall and scoreboard to see how the ball bounced off it. Johnny Bench cockily strode into the batting cage and sent four pitches in a row over the fence, three of them over the screen. Tony Perez next stepped in and put one out of the park and then Bench came back to smash two more into Landsdowne Street...