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...super to read at Oxford or Cambridge; such a stimulating intellectual atmosphere? Looking back, I am rather dubious about such reasoning. I'm afraid my imagination was busy populating the cricket-fields of those institutions of learning with the ubiquitous presence of countless Michael Yorks: tan and rugged, batter's arm swinging purposefully across the screen of Joseph Losey's "Accident," cricket whites emanating some holy light...
Then why not go to trial and get his name cleared? "It's like a baseball game," Jones says. "You don't wait until the batter is running home before you put him out. You start at first base. If you miss him there, you try for second base, then third...
While some workers may have benefited from their opportunity to batter surrogate employers or fellow employees, not all Japanese mental health experts agree that the self-control room is a good idea. Dr. Akira Omi, director of Tokyo's Comprehensive Health Care Institute, believes that such relief from tension is only temporary and could generate more, rather than less tension among workers. "The important thing for us is to start our cure from a more basic level," he says, perhaps by giving workers more leisure time at home. Of prime importance is the easing of what Omi calls Japan...
...learn." He has already started. Early in the season, his approach was to "blow them down," meaning that he threw the fastball 90% of the time. Now he goes with the hard one only two out of three pitches, mixing in his snappy and slow curves to keep the batter guessing...
Four-Mile Hikes. Stargell's new eminence as the league's most dangerous power hitter has caused other Pirates to stop calling their amiable 6-ft. 21-in. cleanup batter "Gentle Ben." Now, in mock reference to the tiny TV-cartoon cereal pitchman, he is known as "Sugar Bear." Fact is, during past winter hibernations, Stargell would balloon up to 245 lbs. and then have to spend spring training "exercising instead of batting." This winter he combined a strict diet with four-mile hikes through the Penn Hills section of Pittsburgh, where he lives. As a result...