Word: alarm
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...here it is. Late Innings moves gracefully and eclectically over five more seasons, some of the most turbulent in the history of baseball. The first class of free agents appears in 1977, a few of its members bemused recipients of multimillion-dollar contracts. Hearing cries of alarm from owners and a few fans, Angell remains calm: "The startling new salaries may represent both a contemporary reality and a historical inevitability, and are thus perhaps best approached with curiosity rather than horror." But four springs later he is horrified at what money is doing to baseball. The owners are trying...
Understandably, tight quarters alarm Cassaleria. He needs to see the sky. And barns are too dark. So a special open-air shed was constructed at Churchill Downs by his gang of part owners. They have not been able to do enough for Cassaleria since last November, when he won the El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. After the race they realized that his good eye had been covered over with mud. He had run blind. The track was fast last Saturday, but Cassaleria ran 13th. He never seemed to be leading with the correct foot...
QUITE A LOT of President Bok's recently released report on federal financial aid could be mistaken for one of his frequent open letters. Thirty pages are a leisurely and articulate analysts of a complex issue, devoid of the concrete proposals that could spell alarm or comprehensive policy change. The dangerous surprise doesn't come till about halfway through...
...from 1933 to 1937. Hired by the chief of several federal relief programs, she interviewed recipients of federal assistance. Charged by her boss with giving as honest an account as possible. Hickok spoke with countless needy Americans, along with businessmen, relief workers, and countless standers-by who watched with alarm as America's "golden age of individualism" withered under the exigencies of a depressed economy. Her dispatches, collected in this volume, read effortlessly. Loathe to embellish her account of what she saw or heard, her portraits of towns in distress often sing with the openness of a fair appraisal...
...Oval Office agree to scale back his sacrosanct defense budget and raise new tax revenues? In public last week the President once again dug in his heels on the tax-reduction plan passed last August. "Tampering with the third year of the tax cut should set off alarm bells in your heads and send shivers up your spines," he told a construction trade union conference in Washington. O'Neill responded with similar obstinacy: "I am as firm on Social Security as the President is on the tax cut. In no way are we going to balance the budget...