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Zimmerman, at 6-2 198 pounds, is a hard runner and poised passer, but he was also the top cornerback on last year's freshman team. With Jerry Beasley out for at least half the season with a shoulder injury from the Holy Cross game and Buzz Baker just recovering from a bad knee problem, Harvard was hurting for depth at cornerback...
Texas-born "Buzz" Busby, 41, ranked lower than Goodwin in the White House hierarchy, but was personally closer to the boss, whom he had served since 1948. In addition to his job as Cabinet Secretary, he wrote some press releases and shorter presidential statements, served as deputy to McGeorge Bundy and acted as a liaison man with the intellectual world. With Walter Jenkins and George Reedy gone, Busby was the last of Johnson's old personal guard. Buzz plans to return to his management-consulting business to take care of his three growing children...
...dirt three feet in front of home plate, and for two full innings he threw nothing but curve balls-struggling to loosen the cramped muscles of his arthritic pitching arm. Finally, he tried a tentative fast ball, then a second and a third-and the crowd began to buzz as one after another the Cubs marched up to the plate, took their cuts, and marched straight back to the dugout...
...Jose, Calif., burglar learned about one of them. When he slipped open the window of a house whose owner was away on vacation, he unknowingly tripped a trigger that set the diverter to silently dialing the police. When the cops answered the phone, the diverter sounded a coded buzz. By checking their key, the police could identify the source of the call, soon had a prowl...
...Nearly anyone can recognize himself in Berne's games, from Harried (the uncomplaining, noble housewife who undertakes too much and then collapses) through Kick Me ("played by men whose social manner is equivalent to wearing a sign that reads 'Please Don't Kick Me' "> to Buzz Off, Buster (the woman who leads a man to water and then waxes wroth when he attempts to drink). Even the nonprofessional reader, after dipping into Berne's turbid prose, will soon realize that the games under discussion, despite their whimsical trademarks, are seldom played...