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Because the Orioles went down 1-2-3 in the top of the first, leaving Ripken standing on deck, it wasn't until he had completed the bottom of the first in the field that Game No. 2,010 became official. Barring rain-outs, work stoppages or, heaven forbid, an injury, Ripken should surpass Gehrig with No. 2,131 on Sept. 6 in Baltimore. Andy Van Slyke, newly signed by the O's to play center field, is excited but slightly anxious about playing with Ripken: "What if we collide on a short fly ball? What if I knock...
...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
...dancing, lovey-dovey pairs could gaze into each other's eyes at their convenience on the upper deck overlooking the sea of gyrating bodies. I found this situation a bit sickening. No, scratch that bit part. The abundance of pawing and slobber really made me want to puke...
...labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond...
...time with a friend. I tasted the clams overboiled in sandy water, saw the rickety ghettos along Route 6 and came upon miles of coarse, deserted dunes with harsh twilight sandstorms. It was not my idealization of the Cape. It should have been a place of carefree beauty, of deck shoes and seagulls, of dinghies and pale yellow beach houses...