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...spring of '57, Haster and "Babe" Simourian and the other guys on the baseball team took a seven-hour ride to Princeton's Bedford Field. The Tigers had a good squad, and this day they had their pitching ace, John Finnegan, on the mound...
...Twiggy, who helped popularize miniskirts in the late 1960s. The fashionable trend toward slender frames on females continues. Currently, three of the ten nonfiction bestsellers deal with diet (see box), and they have dominated the list for months. "No woman is ever too sum or too rich," Mrs. William ("Babe") Paley once quipped. This is the first American generation that has little hope of bettering its parents' earning power, but with what may be a compensatory vengeance, younger citizens have taken up slenderizing, or fashions that make one look slim...
...then, it has fallen behind domestic competitors like Toyota and Nissan, the company that makes Datsuns. The company's struggle to crack the U.S. market dates back to 1971, when Mitsubishi agreed to let Chrysler Corp. become its sole U.S. distributor. "Ten years ago, we were but a babe and Chrysler a big man," recalls Tojo. "Now Chrysler is a big burden for us." As Chrysler's financial problems have worsened, its dealer base has shriveled, and Mitsubishi has steadily lost ground to tough Japanese competitors like Honda and Toyo Kogyo. Last year, Mitsubishi's cars, which...
After missing the Patriots' rookie camp to finish his finals, Buckley has been working out informally with the team at its Foxboro headquarters. Working with quarterback coach Babe Parilli ("He was real helpful in tutoring Joe Namath," Buckley says), teh left-hander is trying to tune his game to the pro level, He only has a few months before he finds out whether the talent that propelled Harvard to five victories in the six games he played in 1980 will be good enough for the pros...
...referee, who had been standing near the Harvard players, approached Bott and said the play would never work. He also did not believe that Babe Ruth could hit to centerfield...