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...will know when baseball will resume after the batboys collect the bats on May 21. But as the principals bicker and claw, just remember this: if Bowie Kuhn and his cronies come to your house for dinner, count your spoons before they leave...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: No Future for Pastimes | 4/8/1980 | See Source »

While Boudreaux may not have had to scrape and claw in the marketplace to build his magazine, which is subsidized by a veteran's organization and operates without, overhead costs in a government building, he had other obstacles to overcome. And they become readily apparent upon closer observation of the executive seated calmly behind his desk...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The Decolonization of Carville | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

...just have to claw your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pinkies on the Wing | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, 16 hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"). Until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

June 5: The Shah of Iran is the surprise speaker at Harvard's Commencement. Clutching a Harvard honorary degree in his withered claw, the cancerridden ex-dictator cites the moral decline of the West as the reason for his downfall, calling for the re-instatement of ROTC at Harvard. President Bok dinies rumors that the Shah was chosen only after both Hubert Humphrey and John Wayne turned down invitations to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Short Decade Begins | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

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