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...Cal, the wise old manager, quits to concentrate on drinking and fishing, and is replaced by the Little Maniac, a pugnacious, team-wrecking Billy Martin caricature. Moses Yellowhorse, the lunatic fireballer, haunts the ball park, and so does Eileen the Bullpen Queen, an annie so astonishingly trashy that the players remember her name. The novel flows with lovely nonsense, summer after summer, until it is necessary to give Barr a slump so that he can recover and win the Series one more time. Author Baker slumps here, just a bit, then finds his groove again...
Though Howell and several followers were charged with attempted murder, a jury acquitted the followers, and the charges against Howell were later dropped. But the trial revealed that the Waco sect was already well armed, with at least a dozen firearms, including shotguns and .22-cal. rifles. Roden, who was judged unable to stand trial in an unrelated slaying, is now in a state mental hospital...
With electricity still out, most homes empty and phones out of order in many neighborhoods, the locals have been arming themselves against the influx of thieves. Cynthia Hitt's husband bought her a .22-cal. pistol for Christmas; she bought him a .30-30 rifle. "What if something happens? You can't scream for a neighbor, and until recently there weren't any phones to call the cops," she says...
...have been offered nothing," Shattuck said in a telephone interview from a San Diego, Cal. conference of the American Council on Education. "I'm certainly very committed to Harvard and it would take something both very attractive and very important to make me leave...
Lawrence Professor of Chemistry David A. Evans, while at Cal Tech, taught Schultz organic chemistry and served as his undergraduate advisor...