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...Shultz refract an implied criticism of of Haig. Haig. "Shultz "Shultz doesn't doesn't make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig's style had be gun to be an issue in itself...
...sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into the light and shown such marvels as one cannot tell . . . and then they turn out all the lights and hit you with a baseball bat." Findley does not relinquish the bat, but in this ambitious, disturbing book, the lights never go off for an instant. -By J.D. Reed
...knocking them down. Out of this basic and by no means original insight, Irving crafted a bestseller and something more. His hero, T.S. Garp, that wise and foolish, gentle and fierce writer-wrestler has become a sort of postmodernist Everyman, and his often deadly adventures on the bleak bat lefields of the contemporary war between the sexes have given the book an almost mythic coloration for many readers...
...wasn't fun playing," Pete whispers, a little ashamed), the Phillies had found their way back to first place under new Manager Pat Corrales. In the drill, Pete played first base. Looking around, he had to laugh. Corrales and Coach Deron Johnson, who was wielding the fungo bat, are his old Cincinnati teammates; another coach, Dave Bristol, managed him there and in the minors; Mets Pitcher Pat Zachry, kibitzing near by, was a painfully lanky teen-age pitcher Rose remembers in one of those hand-me-down Reds uniforms that signify the minorest minor league. So, all around there...
...Louis, Woodie Fryman, 42, of Montreal, Phil Niekro, 43, of Atlanta, and Gaylord Perry, 43, of Seattle. In the offseason, tennis fortifies Rose. Yaz, because of his chronically creaky back, is unable to run for exercise, so he pedals a bicycle in the winter and swings a leaded bat daily, relentlessly. Both say the physical part is the easy part. Rose's ex-teammate Johnny Bench, though only 34, has been complaining this season about his "mind wandering at the plate."According to Rose, "That's not age, that's being in last place...