Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's one titan from that bygone heyday, however, who's still waiting for his hallowed berth in Cooperstown. His name is William Ellsworth Hoy and, in spite of a career that spanned three decades and 14 seasons, the baseball sages on the committee have allowed another year to pass without inducting...
...storm-tossed waters off Massachusetts last week, 7.6 million gal. of oil slid slowly seaward. In the Delaware River, southwest of Philadelphia, 134,000 more gal. of deadly goo spread toward rich tidal marshes. In Los Angeles, the wreck of a blast-shattered tanker still lay smoldering at its berth. Suddenly, on East Coast and West, the U.S. was undergoing an ordeal...
...Jean-Claude Suarès and Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
...berth was a major trouble spot for Harvard last year. Oft-injured Tom Bixby managed to get into only seven matches at the position, at one point having his collar bone broken by Yale's defending NCAA champion, Jim Benett. Four other grapplers took a shot at the job with little success...
Strathmeyer picked up his diploma in June, and D'agostino has dropped a weight class to take his place. The 190 1b. berth will be filled by Fred Smith, no relation to Kip, who struggled to an 0-4-1 record in 1975-76 as D'agostino's substitute. Like Bixby, he is hampered by a gimpy knee...