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Earlier in the day, a group of 100 or so OSS veterans listened grimly to a series of gloomy speeches. Wyoming Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop scoffed that CIA agents have become not spies but "bureaucrats." Frank Barnett of the National Strategy Information Center, a hawkish think tank, warned of a "Soviet window of opportunity" in the 1980s. Ray Cline, a former top CIA officer who now directs strategic and international studies at Georgetown University, offered a dismal report card on his old outfit: D- in covert activities, C- in counterintelligence, C- in information gathering. It is all very depressing...
...Jimmie Foxx; 117. Chuck Klein, 170; 118. Stan Musial, Ernie Banks; 119. Al Kaline, Carl Yastrzemski, Lou Brock; 120. 96, Ninety-six, South Carolina; 121. Bob Gibson; 122. Dave DeBusschere; 123. Dick Groat; 124. Tim Stoddard; 125. Cal Hubbard; 126. Bill Haller; 127. Bill Valentine. Al Salerno: 128. Larry Barnett; 129. Emmett Ashford; 130. Bill Klem; 131. Joe Cronin, $250,000; 132. Gene Conley, Pumps i.e., Green, fly to Israel...they were found drunk at the airport; 133. Theodore S. Williams; 134. Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio...the award was presented by midget Eddie Gaedel; 135. Don Drysdale had pitched...
...painted sculptures, where the coating of figures with primary red, yellow or blue gives them a ferocious visual punch while rendering them, in Segal's words, "more like abstract shafts of color." To take the colors associated with the most rigorous abstractionists of 20th century art - Mondrian and Barnett Newman - and use them in a piece like The Costume Party, begun in 1965, has a perverse aspect...
...disgrace to the game," Gar cia fumed later. Added First Base Um pire Larry Barnett: "He goes goofy. He can't control himself, screaming, ranting and raving. Every time he comes out, he's shot out of a cannon." As for Weaver, he blithely, if inelegantly, explained: "I was in the bathroom throwing up. They made me sick...
...Janie Barnett; Group--Jack...