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...baseball. Last year major league general managers voted him the player they would most like to have. Should such judgments seem too subjective for students of statistics, Parker can satisfy them as well: two straight National League batting championships (.338 in 1977 and .334 last season), consecutive Gold Glove Awards as the best rightfielder in the league and, last year, the Most Valuable Player award. Most eloquent testimony of all: Willie Stargell, 37, the Pirates' captain and home run leader, claimed no right to salary seniority à la Yastrzemski when Parker's contract was announced. He came, instead...
...Robbie Sims (the half-brother of Marvin Hagler), winner of the outstanding fighter award at the New England AAU championships and a definite Olympic contender, will head the card," Jackson said excitedly, as he peddled tickets in the Lowell dining hall. Hundreds of phone calls and miles of legwork later, George Jackson not only sounds like, but is, the promoting wunderkind of boxing at Harvard. Division Boston New York 106 lb. Joe Roach Louis Hernandez 112 lb. Eddic Reardon George Pimentell 119 lb. Jimmie Lyons Jorge Vasquez 125 lb. Tony Verga Steven Boyd 132 lb. John Curran Mike Dominquez...
...This award is a particularly fine honor for a very fine architect," Michael N McKinnell, professor of Architecture, said yesterday, adding, "it's extraordinarily well-Jeserved...
Saturday evening. The students are straggling through the conference center to their dorms. One of the few with longish hair, Indian-born Sanjiv Kripalani of Torrance, Calif., sums up what is on the minds of many: "There is immense pressure on because of the $10.000 award. Everybody is feeling, 'I want it, I want it, I want it.' People are saying to themselves. 'Have I said too much or not enough? Have I lost my chance?' It's not worth it, selling your soul...
During World War II, the rocky little (122 sq. mi.) island became known as "the unsinkable aircraft carrier" of the Mediterranean. After one siege of Axis bombing raids, Britain bestowed the George Cross-its highest civilian award for valor-on the entire island. Last week Malta formally ended its participation in the defense of the West. At Malta's Grand Harbor, British and Maltese officials unveiled a monument symbolically depicting the departure of British forces. Next day Britain's last military commander on the island, Rear Admiral Oswald Cecil, boarded the guided-missile destroyer H.M.S. London...