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...Former Cy Young winner Steve Carlton leads the pitching corps, with Jim Lonborg and Wayne Twitchell in support, comprising a steady starting rotation. The Phillies may receive a needed uplift to their offense if Dick Allen can be procured from Atlanta...
...Riyadh.* There were also stories that the prince was angry with King Faisal because he had been refused permission to live abroad on account of his dissolute ways. Inevitably, radical newspapers in some Arab capitals implied that the prince had been a tool of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen cy. In light of Washington's well-documented concern for keep ing King Faisal's friendship, the accusation seemed absurd...
...signing, which cost the Yankees a cool $3 million for a five-year deal, ended the most extravagant bidding war in baseball history. The financial fireworks were set off three weeks ago when an arbitration panel ruled that Hunter, who won 25 games and the Cy Young Award in 1974, was a free agent. The reason: A's Owner Charles O. Finley had defaulted on part of Hunter's $100,000-a-year contract. Instantly, Hunter's home town of Hertford, N.C., became the unlikely mecca for owners eager to place their bids. By early last week...
Morris Mott, forward for the California Golden Seals and another erudite athlete, is a doctoral candidate in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then there is Mike Marshall, the Dodger relief pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. He retreats to Michigan State every winter to work on his Ph.D. in motor development in children (TIME, Aug. 12). Denver Bronco Quarterback Charley Johnson has a 1971 doctorate in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Johnson, who specialized in the expansion characteristics of plastics, works in the offseason as an engineer and salesman...
...Times, which seven years ago designated a senior staffer as ombudsman-the person in charge of reviewing readers' complaints about fairness and accuracy. The Milwaukee Journal's "reader contact editor," David Runge, fields written and telephoned protests and asks reporters to provide proof for disputed articles. Cy Liberman. "public editor" of the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal, writes an independent daily column that has recently slammed his papers' coverage of a proposed downtown mall as "too negative...