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Kelley's single opened Harvard's four-run second inning, a three-hit, two-walk attack that gave Doyle an early cushion. After Kelley's line drive to right, catcher Vinnie Martelli lofted a long double--probably a homer on a clear day--to left, scoring Kelley. A Dan Bowles sacrifice, Dan Skaff walk, Brad Bauer sacrifice fly and Rick Pearce walk prepared the way for a towering double to left by captain Charlie Santos-Buch, which knocked in Pearce and Skaff...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Kelley's Bat and Doyle's Arm Push Crimson Past UMass, 9-3 | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

...renovated complex would have a 1600-square-yard Astroturf carpet stored under the floor to be installed automatically "on a cushion of air," John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of athletics, said yesterday...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Corporation Votes to Renovate Briggs | 4/22/1980 | See Source »

...ball dressed as hemorrhoids when President Carter was so afflicted; two years before, when the masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team to deal with this sort of whoopee-cushion wit. It is not sullenly antisocial, like the blaring radios the size of steamer trunks that adolescents haul onto public buses to cook up a small pot of community rage, or the occasional pistols that got waved in gas lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Back to Reticence! | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Carter has ordered represent a necessary first step in expressing our outrage to the Soviet Union, they alone will be completely ineffectual in blocking the spread of war. The partial grain embargo will only inconvenience the Soviet society. And in the short run, Soviet stockpiles of grain will further cushion the blow. The technology blockade will have even less effect. The United States is the Soviet Union's supplier of last resort for all high technology and currently does less than one quarter of the trade that Japan, the Soviet Union's leading western trade partner, does annually...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A Necessary Step | 1/9/1980 | See Source »

...Married Man coasts over this pothole in its plot because of its cushion of intelligence and moral fastidiousness. Author Read is best known in the U.S. as the author of Alive, a nonfiction account of how some Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes resorted to cannibalism to survive; his six previous novels, far less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Acts | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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