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After arriving by U.S. Marine Corps helicopter, the leaders of the West will be taken by horse-drawn carriages to the Georgian-style Governor's Palace. During their stay, the dignitaries will dine on such regional delicacies as batter-fried crayfish, Southern-fried chicken and Tex-Mex chile con carne, prepared under the direction of Chef Pierre Monet, formerly of Maxim's in Paris. At the President's insistence, the leaders will not even be burdened with the rigors of a formal agenda. As one White House aide put it, "The challenge is to keep things...
Stretch faced one batter in the ninth WP--Brown...
Contempt for Local Areas. When newspapers and TV stations are chain-owned, as most of them now are, local business, political and cultural leaders "feel alienated, left out." Chains are regarded as the news equivalents of fast-food joints. "Everything is fried in the same batter, a batter packaged in New York or Los Angeles and shipped in." (For Jones, the point is "delicate"; his paper was sold in 1977 to the New York City-based Capital Cities Communications...
Should you decide to stay, you'll witness a sport that has probably been seen by more people in Nottingham, England, than on the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States. Players will be "bowling" the ball into batters in an attempt to perform such feats as "bowling a maiden over"--a maneuver that has no real correlation to anything in baseball other than striking a batter out without the batter losing...
...Neill faced one batter in the eighth...