Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days when ball parks didn't all come from the Riverfront-Three River cookie cutter. Compared to left field, center in Fenway is the Wild West, a vast (almost 430 ft. to straight away center) and mysterious (a high wall that tapers down to the tiny bullpen barrier) piece of real estate. But Lynn studied it and had become its master. (If you're unimpressed, think about how many great centerfielders the Sox have had over the years. Not many.) After completing his fifth year in centerfield, his great catches--those no-one-else-but-Lynn-could-have-made catches...
Though the Pill and intrauterine device are among the most effective ways of preventing pregnancy, increased concern over their side effects has led many women and their partners to switch to the less hazardous "barrier" contraceptives, the condom and diaphragm. Now interest is reviving in yet another barrier device, the centuries-old cervical...
Feminist health clinics, which have spearheaded the revival of cervical caps, say the device has received impressive notices. Iowa City's Emma Goldman Clinic for Women has fitted 700 caps since 1978, and reports that over half the clients using barrier contraceptives select the cervical...
DIED. Elston Howard, 51, versatile slugger who was one of the pioneering blacks in baseball's major leagues; of cardiac arrest; in New York City. In 1955, eight years after Jackie Robinson breached the game's color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard became the first black to play with the New York Yankees. After 13 seasons with the Yanks and one with the Boston Red Sox, he returned to Yankee Stadium as the American League's first black coach...
...over the country. Stanford University has announced that, come fall, the cost of tuition, fees, room and board for a single year will rise 13.3%, from $8,921 to $10,105. It is a safe-if painful-bet that tuition, room and board will crash the five-figure barrier at a handful of other schools, since Stanford typically charges less than Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. At Harvard, Associate Dean for Finances Melissa D. Gerrity forecasts an increase of 11% to 15% above the present $9,170, and a total that could go as high as $10,546. Matters are bound...