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...youngest owner in the major leagues was watching his team in a preseason game last month when Atlanta Braves Pitcher Adrian Devine balked with two men on. As the runners casually advanced, R.E. ("Ted") Turner III, 37, jumped to his feet. "Where are those guys going?" he demanded. "The pitcher balked," someone explained. Turner sat down. Then, after a moment of silence, he asked: "What the hell is a balk...
...short five feet away--but no one pays any attention. Music is piped in from the main room and some have started dancing to it, watching themselves in the wall mirror; pouting, panting, grinding, one woman stares in a hypnotized daze at the reflection of her own breasts. People balk before turning on the water--the tilting phallic shaped faucets make washing one's hands a curiously obscene...
...bags to leave for graduate study in psychology at Harvard. Still to come are his years of pioneering research, his prolific writing career, and his eventual rise to the position of spokesman for the school of behavioristic psychology. The book does have its personable side, for Skinner doesn't balk at recounting more commonplace exploits that we can sympathize with: for example, his bumbling adolescent sexual adventures, reminiscent of those of Holden Cauldfield and Woody Allen. But although ordered, it is not cohesive, and appeals mainly to a circle of dedicated admirers curious about this "queer bird's" personal history...
...their mother, he asks: "Did I put them on vitamins last time, Mommy? What about iron?" If a youngster becomes ill when the clinic is closed, he asks the parents to bring the child to his house. Though his main emphasis is on the ailing, he does not balk at providing free school physicals and shots for youngsters who cannot afford them. In only two areas does Roman Catholic Balthazar draw the line: he will not dispense birth control pills or perform abortions...
...long ago, the furrier was one of U.S. retailing's most endangered species. Badgered by conservationists, women began passing up their cherished minks, muskrats and marmots, settling instead for fake furs-or none at all. Then came the recession, and buyers began to balk at purchasing coats-no matter what they were made of-that had three-and four-figure price tags. Fur sales in specialty shops and department stores across the U.S. plunged, and many firms went out of business altogether. In just two years, nearly half of the 2,000 fur wholesalers and suppliers clustered in Manhattan...