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...awards for fielding and was elected to the league's All-Star team twelve times. His lifetime batting average of .317 was the highest among all active players. His finest hour came in the 1971 World Series when, with a blistering .414 average at bat and assorted marvels afield, he all but singlehanded defeated the favored Baltimore Orioles. Such seasoned managers as Dick Williams of the Oakland A's and Harry Walker of the Houston Astros say the same thing: Roberto Walker Clemente was "the greatest ballplayer I ever...
...Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield, by Mary Norton, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 75? each...
...Western alliance. How could voters possibly trust them [the C.D.U.-C.S.U.] to carry on this foreign policy, trust those who rejected almost everything that Washington, London, Paris and Bonn have tried to accomplish in the field of East-West détente these past three years?" Farther afield, Brandt pointed out, "We shall establish diplomatic relations with China this month." Turning to domestic matters, the Chancellor argued that the C.D.U. was wrong on its major issue of inflation: "The opposition still seems to follow the thinking that a major part of the job can be done in the Federal Republic...
...Secret Service is asking reporters who will be covering the conventions to fill out personal questionnaires. The forms require, among other things, the individual's Social Security number and place of birth. A few of the responses are likely to startle the service. Some publications are reaching far afield for big or bizarre names who will be going to Miami Beach more as impressionists than journalists...
...master of social observation was Thomas Rowlandson, with his scenes of 18th century London-like the splendid Old Vauxhall Gardens (circa 1784), in which portraits of such notables as Dr. Johnson, Boswell and the Prince of Wales are mingled with the faces of anonymous revelers. Other artists went farther afield. George Chinnery fled his family in 1802 and settled in India, where he turned out a stream of elegant, precise topographical studies like Figure Seated by an Indian Temple...