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Long Johns. Such backwoods garb is actually as old as the hills-and mountains and streams-where the clothes fit in best. Venerable firms like L.L. Bean of Freeport, Me., Eddie Bauer of Seattle and Gokeys of St. Paul have been doing a brisk mail-order business in such gear for 50 years or more. Says Bean's bemused merchandising manager, Fred McCabe: "Fashion has just come round to us. We certainly haven't gone fashionable ourselves...
...examining a vaginal swab from a woman infected with gonorrhea, Dr. Ian Phillips of London's St. Thomas's Hospital made an alarming discovery: the swab contained a strain of gonococci, or gonorrhea-causing bacteria, unlike any that Phillips had ever seen before in his laboratory. The bean-shaped bugs not only were totally resistant to penicillin-the medication generally employed against this common and often dangerous venereal disease-but actually seemed to thrive in its presence...
Instead it was Plunkett who was traded and Grogan who inherited a maturing team carefully drafted by Fairbanks. A lanky 6-ft. 4-in. blond string-bean whose 205 Ibs. seem insubstantial until padded by his uniform, Grogan has grown fast. His passing, still occasionally pitched too high, has improved greatly. But it is his timely running that marks him. "When I run some, I get to feel I'm more part of the game," Grogan says. "I was raised running the football. I'm just doing what I know to do best...
Fans couldn't nuzzle up to their favorites in the huge, austere Yankee Stadium. In the comparative bandboxes of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds a sense of intimacy between spectators and players reigned. In Yankee Stadium, you'd have to be Allie Reynolds just to bean an umpire with a bottle from the reserved seats. Fans came to watch baseball, not be part of it with the Yankee ball clubs. The majestic park begged for spectacle...
...Frixes have planted 25 acres with 1,000 peach trees. LG and Judy pick most of the fruit themselves. "We ain't made but one real crop, though," says Frix. "Cold weather killed them." Another 20 acres have been planted to snap beans, butter beans, cucumbers and squash, but there have been problems with those crops too. "Like a month ago I planted two acres of snap beans," he says. "They came up good. Then I go over there and found just one bean standing up. Deer was eatin' them up." The remaining 53 acres are wooded...