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...stage. One operation and then Hannah can resume the life of a middle-class English suburban housewife. She says no. She will take the two years remaining to her, thank you, and call it a life. Irked at having his advice dismissed so airily, and by a woman to boot, the doctor asks Hannah why. "I have not done anything at all without someone else's interests being the prime factor," she replies. "This is the last opportunity. I insist on doing this...
...Champions and the only other team repeating a 1976 trip to Omaha, 10-7, largely on the efforts of freshman third baseman Jamie Allen. Allen smashed a homer and two singles and then pitched the Sun Devils out of a ninth-inning jam, earning a save to boot...
When Brown returned to the Pentagon this January, he was no longer a kid but still a whiz?and a mellower fellow to boot. He works as intensely as ever and expects others to do the same. Now if his time is being wasted by a subordinate, he ends the conversation?but a little more gracefully. Says a senior assistant: "It seems amazing to me that he is so good with people. That's an extraordinary personality development...
...includes a faker's guide to the pronunciation of Middle English, to which, after a discourse on the swampy places to be avoided in negotiating the letter e, he adds, "If this is too confusing, try to follow, in general, the pronunciation of the Cisco Kid: 'Boot hombray, thees ees nut yoor peesstol...
...have to hold anyone responsible for Harvard's 19-run outburst, a good place to begin pointing fingers would be freshman second-sacker Mike Stenhouse, who a) went five for six at the plate, b) hit for the cycle and added an extra single and a sacrifice fly to boot, c) scored four runs and drove in six, and d) popped to short in the ninth. That last one was simply to show that nobody's perfect...