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Being signed by the Red Sox in 1971, he says, "was like coming back from the dead." He brought back with him a high-octane fastball- still his best pitch-a good knuckler, curve and a blooper ball that floats by hypnotized batters. At the same time, he began refining the twists and twitches that he has now developed to a rubbery art. The gregarious Cuban also brought along an inexhaustible sense of humor, a special brand of English and an omnipresent cigar that he smokes, or chews, even in the shower. Red Sox teammates used to douse Tiant...
...deterioration. Three pairs of floor-length lace curtains catch the wisps of breeze and a variety of colors from the fireworks in the garden. In the center of the room, where it belongs as a major bone of contention, is a large double bed. I am reminded of the blooper committed by a TV announcer promoting the showing of the play's film version: "See Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in a Cot on a Hot Tin Roof." No, it's got to be a double...
...U.P.I, wire services carried correct references to Truman as Goldwater's "best President" in their stories. Even the L.A. Times ignored its own news service dispatch for a story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post. The New York Times's Tom Wicker used the misquotation in the lead of his Tuesday column. Rued Wicker: "It didn't occur to me that...
Simon also announced a revised set of allocations, put together hastily by his Federal Energy Office to meet a Congress-set deadline. They contained one monumental blooper: as originally put forth, the regulations would have forced refineries to cut gasoline production 25%. After a day of scare headlines and stock market rout, the FEO confessed its error and announced that it would really order only a 5% reduction, based on 1972 levels...
...Blooper Snoopers. To quiet the growing clamor of consumer complaints, retailers are hiring more and more people to examine incoming merchandise. Kay Campbell's used to have salesclerks send back defective clothes once a season; now a full-time inspector examines each garment as it is received. Joseph Magnin has taken on four quality controllers in California and one on New York's Seventh Ave., where most women's wear originates. In the past year, the company has dropped ten suppliers that had repeatedly shipped faulty goods...