Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin with or they've already taken the hint and taken off, find yourself some lunch and maybe go shopping for a while for room provisions. Go to Harvard Student Agencies and rent a refrigerator. Go see the folks at New England Telephone about getting a magic communicator-box. But don't get sheets from HSA--bring your...
Last week's Shootout showed them at their scrappy worst and best. In the first game the fat-bat Dodgers (with a team average of .261, second in the league) simply blew Blue out of the box and finished with 16 hits. In the second the Giants lost by only one run when Billie Jean King's kid brother, Randy Moffitt, relieving with the bases loaded, walked Los Angeles Centerfielder Bill North to give the Dodgers the league lead for the first time since May. Then the Giants fought back, winning a one-run game with a home...
Pitcher Don Sutton struggled with his control at the start of the season, yet he has won twelve games, against nine losses, mixing up curves and fastballs that leave batters fuming. First Baseman Steve Garvey, ramrod straight in the batter's box, the Jock Armstrong of baseball, has had that regular Garvey year: M.V.P. in the All-Star game, hitting .289, with 84 runs batted in. Rightfielder Reggie Smith, who has been alternately brooding or brilliant in the past for Boston and St. Louis, is now a happily artful Dodger. He has a tremendous arm, a pulverizing...
Good-time movies clean up at the box office...
This is the summer Hollywood will remember as the one when people came back into movie theaters in droves. One smash hit after another is building the biggest box-office crush moviemakers have ever seen, and there is no end to the lines in sight. The perfect summer movie -light, fast moving and uncomplicated -usually turns up every year or two in the form of the "monster hit," that film everybody has to see. In 1975 it was Jaws. Last year it was Star Wars, the most successful film of all time. This year it is Star Wars again. Sweeping...