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...their hosts, the San Francisco Giants, to get homesick. Convinced that the Western diet is the secret to the power of U.S. players, the Orions wolfed down platters of roast beef, steak, corned beef and cabbage, brownies and, after a few lessons on gnawing techniques, corn on the cob. Something worked. After losing their first five games by narrow margins, the Orions exploded for eleven hits to trounce the Oakland Athletics...
...less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis' father, a cultivated cob who talks a brand of rhetoric such as might come of an alliance between Leda and the Late George Apley...
Eric C. Cotter of Saginaw, Mich., and Eliot House (Biology); Stephen Hartz, of Belmont and Leverett House (Social Studies); Barton S. Herskovitz, of BalaCynwyd. Penn., and Kirkland House (Social Studies): Edward R. Houston, of Cos Cob. Conn., and Dunster House (Visual Studies); Kenneth W. Jost, of Nashville. Tenn., and Leverett House (History): Jon A Lanham, of Trenton, N. J., and Dudley House (English): Charles A, Linker, of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Dudley House (Biochemical Sciences); Ronald T. Luke, of Dallas, Tex., and Kirkland House (Social Studies); Barry A. Margolin, of Queens Village and Kirkland House (Social Studies); Kenny R. Marotta...
...iconoclasm, Alice hews to a couple of basic rules for her cookery. For one: "You have to have one really big pot, something you can boil macaroni and rice in, cook corn-on-cob in, wash your hair in, wash your dog in. Get one that's big enough so that a mop will fit." For another: "Wine and liquor are great for cooking, and also for the cook. In fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell...
...Nassau Bay motel, across the street from Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA engineers, secretaries and technicians gathered around the large pool to feast on barbecued chicken and beef and corn on the cob. Before the sun was down the celebrants numbered close to 3,000, and one of them-a shapely blonde-had been heaved into the pool. A man in a business suit dived after her. Another dived after him. A bikini-clad go-go dancer go-goed it on the diving board (to the low-down accompaniment of a group called "The Astronauts"), while leering spectators...