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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close your eyes and remember an article called "The Old Sentimentality and the New Sentimentality," which was written by the people who wrote this book, and which you read in Esquire a couple of months ago. Remember that the article involved taking lists of names, such as "Dwight Eisenhower, Bat Man and Jackson Pollack," and putting them under headings like "Old Sentimentalists," and then taking other lists of names, such as "Bobby Kennedy, Wonder Woman and Jeanne Moreau," and putting them under headings like "New Sentimentalists," and then printing them neatly with lots of white space all around. Second, imagine...
Marsh has been going to ball games since he was old enough to tell a ball from a bat. He considers his first allegiance to the Cardinals, since he was born in St. Louis, and his second to the Senators, since he grew up in Washington.* But he has a transferred loyalty to the Baltimore Orioles, because-as many fans may want to forget-the Orioles are in fact the old St. Louis Browns gone east and up. So, in a way, Marsh could hardly call last week work. It was off to Baltimore for a game with the Chicago...
...Cafeteria, 150 separate menus will provide 520,000 lunches, suppers and breakfasts of champions. Dominating the Olympic Tokyo is Architect Kenzo Tange's shell-shaped National Gymnasium complex, where swimmers and basketball players will vie, while the first judo competition in Olympic history will be conducted beneath the bat-winged roof of the Budokan Hall. Last week teams from 96 nations were forming for the Tokyo Games, and sports buffs the world over prepared to descend on the city by sea and air. At least 20,000 of them a day will make the scene during the Games...
...transistor radios dangling from their ears, and a stripper on "The Block" stops in mid-bump to ask, "Any score on the Birds yet?" On urbane Bolton Hill, superstitious fans sit nervously in front of TV sets, crossing left legs over right when a lefthanded Oriole comes to bat, right over left for righthanders. And in a midtown advertising agency, Copywriter Robert Goodman sits down and in four days knocks out music and lyrics for his Pennant Fever record album...
...exposure vaccination for people who run special risks-veterinarians, dog handlers and wildlife rangers. This protection program, Dr. Tierkel suggested, may be just the ticket for Peace Corps workers and other people going into areas where rabies is endemic, especially in Central and South America, home of the vampire bat...