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...Committee's statement, released Thursday night was prompted largely by Yale students who picketed the office of President Kingman Brewster Jr. for ever three days this week. The students have questioned whether a "creative bleacher"--Bernstein--could properly be refused tenure on the reported ground that he has not published enough books...
...Bleacher seats went for as much as 30 soles ($1.00) apiece, twice the regular rate and equivalent to a full day's pay for many a Peruvian laboring man. By game time, 50,000 fanatic soccer fans had crushed into Lima's National Stadium to howl for a home-team victory. Wild-eyed aficionados were already jubilant and confident...
Baseball was truly the national pastime when eleven-year-old John Drebinger saw his first big-league game. In that half-forgotten summer of 1902, baseball meant two-bit bleacher seats in the sun and no night games. There was no TV either, to tempt pitchers and managers into time-wasting histrionics. The players were public heroes, and fan's wore their hearts on their sleeves...
Last year's spectacle, in the era of the bunny ball, was dour Roger Maris grimly slugging 61 home runs over assorted fences to break Babe Ruth's 34-year-old record. The day seemed not far off when bleacher fans would wear the gloves and ballplayers would drink the beer. But this year, excitement suddenly came back to baseball-at least in ballparks where a coil-spring, 30-year-old shortstop named Maury Wills was playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 161 games, with two games to go, Wills stole an even 100 bases, shattering...
...grey and drizzling last week as Moscow turned out to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Only a few days after the panoply of the Party Congress, thousands of civilian demonstrators gathered in their assigned staging areas, huddling beneath banners, signs and floats. As crowds filled the bleacher seats on both sides of Red Square, the trim battalions of the Moscow garrison drew up across from the Mausoleum now solely occupied by Lenin...