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...however, in an era when excessive gasoline consumption has become offensive to nostril, pocketbook and national pride, automotive abstinence has become a virtue. The kiwi is in the catbird seat. The man or woman who gets to work by bicycle or shanks' mare trails clouds of self-esteem as palpable as the carbon dioxide fumes he has forsworn. Whether he refuses to buy a car at today's prices or simply will not or cannot take the wheel, he can be said to have heeded official pleas to share the ride (though it is someone else who does...
...city's leaders worry that big tax increases will persuade voters to favor 2 1/2. If they do, City Manager James L. Sullivan warns, Cambridge's current financial posture would be a comparative catbird seat...
Sports! Photographs by Neil Leifer; text by George Plimpton; foreword by Red Smith (Abrams; 192 pages; $29.95). As a top photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Neil Leifer sat in the catbird seat through nearly two decades of Olympic Games, World Series, Kentucky Derbys, heavyweight championship fights. So there is much in this huge, flawlessly reproduced collection that is born of the right time and the right place. But Leifer also sat on teetering ladders, leaned out of helicopters, strapped himself or his cameras along rails on the homestretch, or under ski jumps. Searching for the special angle, he found a special...
...devastating 'T from the zebras. Jimmy Reynolds connected on one of two technical tosses, and S.C. kept possession of the spheroid. Graziano, who finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds, was fouled again. This time he hit both free throws, and Frank McGuire's squad was in the catbird seat with a 52-46 lead...
Haymore--as always, the giant standing in the way of Crimson victory--took charge at that point, banging home three close-in baskets in the next two minutes to put the Minutemen in the catbird seat...