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Just after the opening tip-off, I decided that I wanted something to drink, so I went down under the stands and asked for the typical football game beverage--hot cocoa. Well, the woman serving drinks looked at me like I'd just flown in from the moon or somewhere and said they didn't have any. Can you believe that? All they had was Coke. So I got one. There's something strange about Coke at a football diamond; it's clear, like soda water...
...mark his birthday last year, friends roasted Allen Harold Neuharth, 56, with a bogus interview printed under the logo of the Cocoa (Fla.) Today, a newspaper he helped launch in 1966. "We're pushing for a Pulitzer this year," the fictive Neuharth remarks at one point. In what category? "Profit. Er, make that 'progress...
...accountant with a Sephardic pedigree and a prim nature that denies her sensuality through 40 years of marriage. Four children are born and bred amidst a welter of domesticities. Passions are expended in the composition of herbaceous borders, the concoction of raspberry tarts and the preparation of potions of cocoa laced with rum and chocolate shavings. Yet Ariadne moves briskly through this classic obstacle course. And why not? She was named for the Greek princess who knew her way around a maze, and those false starts tell much about the female condition. Some are searing: a humiliating first love...
...cocoa for a basket...
Brown has to wait until the Astros' spring training in early March in Cocoa Beach, Fla. to start playing ball again. He sees next year as pivotal: "It'll be my first full year and by the end of next year I should know my chances." The Double A league is his immediate goal. "A lot of people fail to realize that Triple A is usually for major league players who are hurt or who are old," he said, adding, "The Astros took three or four from Double A last year...