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After a 16-game losing streak in 1977, Turner put on a uniform and relieved Manager Dave Bristol long enough to make it 17. Along the way, he signed a mess of unlikely free agents (Andy Messersmith, $1.75 million; Al Hrabosky, $5.9 million; Claudell Washington, $3.5 million). Last season's attendance was 535,418. To be sure, in Turner's time, the Braves have never finished any better than fourth in the National League's West Division...
...team will be staying in Bristol, a port town in the southern eastern corner of England--just one hour away from most of the team's matches. Bristol is the same town in which Harvard's rughy team will be staying during part of its four "We should be meeting up at all the pubs," said Smith...
...Bantam Books, outpacing Jaws and Valley of the Dolls. Buoyed by the acute aggravation of frustrated cube twiddlers, Nourse's book has topped bestseller lists in the U.S. and around the world from New Zealand to Nigeria. Says John May, managing director of George's Booksellers in Bristol, England: "The cube phenomenon is the biggest thing of its kind we have ever experienced. Books on the cube are selling like mad." Even august Cambridge University Press has entered the field with Conquer That Cube...
Prince Charles, 33, after explaining to Bristol factory workers that his pregnant wife Diana could not join him because she had morning sickness: "I'm quite prepared to take full responsibility...
Last month the bureau awarded a $225,000 feasibility study of the task to the venerable Bristol manufacturing firm of Masson Scott Thrissell Engineering Ltd. If a design can be perfected, the bureau hopes to begin phasing in as many as seven of the new presses, at a cost of $3 million each, as soon as 1983. That could add $21 million to the deficit side of the U.S. balance of payments, stimulate inflation-and, well, boost America's need for British presses...