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...Catfish Hunter won his 200th game at 30 Vida Blue pitched the no-hitter as a rookie, while Ken Holtzman pitched a gem and homered the same...
...public courtship began last month, when Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds toured the black communities in the rural Mississippi Delta to check into voting discrimination. With Jesse Jackson as his guide, the patrician Reynolds dined on catfish sandwiches and grits, listened to horror stories and, holding Jackson's hand, sang We Shall Overcome. Then he returned to Washington and dispatched federal registrars to five Mississippi counties to register voters. It was a symbolic journey in a presidential campaign season: Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, has been a key target of black leaders...
...musical talents, the opera boasts a number of songs that have become standards: Summertime; I Got Plenty o' Nuttin '; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain 't Necessarily So. More subtle, but no less impressive, are the choruses, which give voice to the residents of Catfish Row: their lamentation in Gone, Gone, Gone, their exuberance in Ain't Got No Shame, their terror in Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens. Proudly, Gershwin considered his work "the greatest music composed in America," and some...
...over time, a process known as bioaccumulation, poses a long-range, if not immediate, health hazard. Warned Adamkus: "This is going to be a ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over the years." The sample fish in the study were bottom feeders, such as carp and catfish, which scavenge in slimy sediment, where dioxin tends to settle. Cautious environmental officials renewed warnings against eating fish from the Tittabawassee, though no outright ban has been declared. The exact health risk from dioxin absorbed by fish has not been determined...
...Catfish" Hunter. who retired at age 33 with 224 victories...