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Carl Yastrzemski: Any roster must begin with Yaz, for while his statistical contribution to the team is often negligible, his symbolic value is impossible to assess--he is the real prism of the Red Sox, the central figure in almost every way. To understand Yaz is to understand the intricate relationship between the Sox and their fans and the Sox and themselves. It's all love and hate. When Yaz steps up to the dugout side of the plate and kicks at the dirt like a racehorse, as he has for fifteen years, his third spot in the line...
...buildings must conform to an economic law as iron-cast as their own beams or facades: they must pay their way. The entrepreneur begins with a solid old structure that is well served by transportation facilities or on the fringes of desirable downtown areas. When architects come in to assess conversion problems, they have to take an approach contrary to all of their training; instead of form following function, function has to follow form. "We simply deal with what we find," says Boston Architect Paul McGinley of Anderson Notter Associates Inc. "The old building itself determines the kinds of spaces...
...with the promise of a fine villa on the Côte d'Azur and a bottomless Swiss bank account. The form, in theory, also includes assassination, though the CIA possessed no machinery for this kind of executive action. Harvey had no authority to act, only to explore, assess and advise...
...Francisco, during four separate periods of a month or less in 1969, 1970 and 1971; in Hawaii in late 1954 and early 1955; and in New Orleans for three weeks in 1957. The chief purposes were to keep track of Americans who were corresponding with Communist officials and to assess Communist secret-writing and censorship techniques...
...Road. When the CIA was planning the Bay of Pigs invasion, its agents learned about the $450,000 and reckoned that Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello would be anxious to get even with Castro. The agency asked the three to use their contacts in Cuba to assess the chances that an invasion would set off a popular uprising against Castro. The CIA also assigned the Mafia to pinpoint the roads that Castro might use to deploy troops and tanks in meeting attacking forces. Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello ordered their old contacts on the island to set up a small network...