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...just now starting to come back down to earth a little bit," said Brian Buckley, the only signal-caller picked by the Pats in last month's NFL draft, and a "real prospect," according to coach Ron Erhardt...
...mess around with Mother Irony, they tell one another now at the Café Babar. When the phone rings, no one wants to answer it. Although it is more than a year since Joe Troise and Bill Glanting and the others had their big idea, the caller is more than likely to be some reporter or talk-show crocodile wanting to know about the Dull Men's Club. Dullness had everyone excited there for a while, and it kept things jumping among the regulars at the café, a neighborhood beer-and-sandwich joint in San Francisco...
...Babar the other night, Troise came cautiously to the phone and said yes, they were trying to give the club a decent burial. "Don't use my address, O.K.?" There was a good deal of commotion in the background, and the caller asked Troise whether the noise was creative ferment. Well, as a matter of fact, Troise admitted, he and a friend were trying to mobilize the nation's pets to solve the energy crisis. "Put the little beggars on treadmills." Did the movement have a slogan? "Sure: 'It's not enough to be cute...
...opening day lineup when he accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...
...behind." For a period of time, aides said, literally no one was running the place: Weinberger was working with Reagan on the budget, while the deputy secretary Carter holdover Frank Carlucci, was acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency. "It's pretty lonely here," a secretary said, telling a caller that with Weinberger and Carlucci out, there was no one else around who could answer questions...