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...police for his personal safety. Traveling in Italy, he rates a six-man motorcycle escort, busloads of carabinieri and plainclothes police in the crowd. In his 1979 visit to New York City, he was protected by thousands of policemen. In Japan last year police carried special steel racquets to bat away thrown objects-a quaint reminder of the success of the country's ultrastrict gun laws...
...planned a marvelous afternoon at Soldiers Field yesterday. The event was the first annual Harvard Baseball Alumni Game, and the return of more than two dozen ex-Crimson hatsmen made the day a treat... Hardworking Peter Crowley, a three-year junior yarsity star, picked up his first varsity at-bat at Dartmouth. Good to see, Pete... Tuesday's contest with Brandeis is the squad's last home game. The squad travels to Army and Cornell next weekend to close out the campaign. FIRST GAME at Hanover, N.H. HARVARD (0) AB R H BI Chicarello, dh 2 0 1 0 Weller...
Except for Hawaii, no state has been left untouched. But one of the worst outbreaks is now occurring in the rural counties of southern Illinois. So far this year, officials of Jackson County alone have encountered a dozen rabid animals-dogs, cats, skunks and a bat. Skunks are particularly dangerous carriers of the rabies virus; while dogs usually die within three weeks after infection, skunks survive for up to four months. Ordinarily shy, skunks have attacked dogs and cows, wandered into houses and even chased children in broad daylight...
Well, the Wild Man. Donnie Allard, finally cooled to mortal temperatures, rapping just two singles in four trips yesterday and knocking home a lone run. And Harvard's other big bat. Vinnie Martelli's, managed just an RBI double in four at bats, although Northeastern's centerfielder. Mark Ferullo, robbed him of a probable inside-the-park homer, by snagging that smash on one hop with a dive on the Astroturf outfield...
...dancing snappy, and the jokes, if not hilarious, at least well-timed. The willing suspension of disbelief that lies at the heart of the theater can become practically cryogenic under the spell of all that glitter. Complete strangers start singing in harmony, villains start tapdancing--no one will bat an eye if it's snappy enough. A.W.O.L. has all of the elements required for a good musical--maybe too many--but one begins to suspect that even though the cast and orchestra know what they are doing, the director got lost somewhere. The only element of musical comedy that cannot...