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...severance it took. I had no place to go. I stuck out my thumb on a freeway entrance, going through all my tears to Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived. Afraid, with all my books, my dictionary, my eye makeup clutched to me, I sat on a bench staring at the ocean...
...that freshman coach Chet O'Neil probably already had his starting eleven picked out for both offence and defense. Nobody is looking--why don't you hang up the spikes before you spend the whole fall on the sidelines? However, if you have aspirations of sitting on the varsity bench one day, you must start gathering splinters this season...
...Luzinski looks more the linebacker than the leftfielder. But he is a gentle giant. Second Baseman Dave Cash, a Tom Thumb by comparison, calls him "fat boy" with impunity, and Shortstop Larry Bowa gets away with announcing that "if Dave and I were playing for the Reds, Johnny Bench would have 120 runs batted in by now." But Bowa also remembers the time he goaded the Bull once too often. "He came at me, I ducked, and he hit John Vukovich instead. Then I ran into the bathroom and locked the door...
...standing on the pier at Newell waiting patiently for the joking and the chatting to subside so he could get down to business. Soon there were ten women sitting quietly on the bench, and he had their attention. He began quietly, in his deep, sonorous voice...
Down the Line. By last January the frustrated L.D.F. finally decided to ask the appeals court for a formal order directing the judge to decide the case. They argued that Lawrence, 68, a Savannah lawyer appointed to the bench by Lyndon Johnson in 1968, had a past history of dragging his feet in deciding employment-discrimination cases. But the appeals court said no. Now the L.D.F. attorneys have gone to the Supreme Court. The "pattern of delay," they claim, means "a substantial nullification" of employment civil rights in southern Georgia, where Lawrence presides. The high court will not even decide...