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...have been reports from around the country of shoppers in discount stores being bitten by poisonous snakes or insects hidden in some piece of imported merchandise or other. None of the incidents has been verified. Nor has anyone ever documented the "Kentucky fried rat" that allegedly fell into the batter at a fast-food restaurant...
...pitching ace for the Kansas City Monarchs, was telling how Luis Tiant Sr., who pitched for the Cuban Stars with the same herky-jerky motion that his son made famous in the majors, once got a third strike without throwing a pitch. Fooled by Tiant's delivery, the batter took a mighty swing -only to discover that the crafty mounds-man had thrown to first base in a pick-off attempt...
...head. It isn't written down anywhere, you understand. No, I will not give you a single detail." Avery and an assistant, Training Officer Lieutenant Motley, journeyed to the palace six weeks ago to give the bride-to-be an approving peek at their design. The batter had gone into the oven a month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake...
...raised eyebrow. Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to resist a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language: "We rub our noses for puzzlement. We clasp our arms to isolate ourselves or to protect ourselves. We shrug our shoulders for indifference." Baseball pitchers often dust back a batter with a close ball that is not intended to hit but only to signal a warning claim of dominance. The twitchings of young children too long in adult company are merely involuntary signals of short-fused patience. Any competent psychiatrist remains alert to the tics and quirky expressions by which...
...major interests aside from the law and his family (he has three children) are fishing and the Cincinnati Reds. During the 1973 playoffs between the Reds and the New York Mets, he was hearing arguments at the court and had his clerks slip him inning-by-inning, then batter-by-batter, reports. When Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation came through during the climactic game, one clerk's note read, "Kranepool flies to left. Agnew resigns...