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FRANK TEPEDINO. You don't remember him? Aw c'mon! Tommy Tresh, hell, he even made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...
Jones: How many are dead? [One of the airstrip party reports that others were killed.] Aw, God, Almighty God. It's too late. They're all laying out there dead. Please, can we hasten our medication...
...Snoozer consists of two double-decker cars, joined by an accordion-like hinge, on an air-suspended chassis; it can traverse the bumpiest byway. Powered by a 10-cylinder, 400-h.p. Daimler-Benz diesel engine, the superbus can reach 80 m.p.h. and is as high and wide as the aw permits (13.12 ft. by 8.2 ft); a six-footer can walk its length without stooping...
...using your bed for a trampoline and pillow fights with your sister were now suddenly unimportant, no, downright boring. Little League tryouts were in four weeks, and you didn't make it last year because you didn't work hard enough, and aw heck if the pros can start...
...most valuable new contributions to the West's airpower is AW ACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). NATO's purchase of 18 of these $128.5 million Boeing 707s cleared a major hurdle two weeks ago when it was okayed by a key committee of West Germany's Bundestag. Designed as an airborne command post, AWACS can detect enemy planes from as far away as 400 miles and then coordinate attacks against them. Says General John W. Pauly, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe: "With AWACS, our air defense becomes about 500% more effective...