Word: cleanups
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...take the game so solemnly that the town was thrown into a tizzy when the coach of the local Rotary Club-sponsored team allowed Sharon Poole, a redhaired, freckle-faced girl of twelve, to don uniform No. 9 and fill a vacancy in the otherwise all-boys group. Batting cleanup, she drove in a run in her first game, went hitless in her second, and earned her teammates' respect with her agility in center field as the team won both games. But Coach Donald Sciuto kept getting complaints from parents about allowing Sharon to play...
...Nader report bristles with characteristic impatience. It scoffs at the old argument that the U.S. economy will suffer because pollution control will put marginal industries out of business. A big cleanup, it says, would probably create more jobs than it would destroy "because there is more work to be done." That remains debatable...
...poor Norwegian town hopes to become prosperous by attracting tourists to a bathing spa. Dr. Stockmann (Stephen Elliott), the spa medical adviser, discovers that the town's waters are polluted. Stockmann assumes that his brother Peter, the mayor (Philip Bosco), will start an immediate cleanup. Peter adamantly refuses. The doctor believes that a liberal publisher (Conrad Bain) and his crusading editor (David Birney) will print the truth. They turn against him. He tries to rally the populace and is reviled as An Enemy of the People. At play's end, the town is morally polluted by the fraud...
...result of this zealous cleanup, Singapore has earned the title of Asia's Mr. Clean. The results can be slightly oppressive; some Singaporeans even long for the excitement of the dirtier old days. Not only have fireworks been banned, but one government official has talked about curbing the blaring of TV and radios, and has even suggested that the noise of mah-jongg, Singapore's favorite game, should be kept as low as possible...
...that left the Reds talking to themselves. "That guy can field a ball with a pair of pliers," moaned Rightfielder Pete Rose. "The only way to beat him," added Catcher Johnny Bench, "is to hit it over his head." Bench should know. In the final game, the Reds' cleanup hitter powered a line smash toward left field only to see Robinson make yet another spectacular diving catch. Reds Manager Sparky Anderson summed up the Series in three little words: "Robinson beat...