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...freshman infield now has a year under its belt and should function even more smoothly as sophomores. Big Mark Bingham hit a solid .383 with 22 rbis while making but one error at first base last year. Rick Pearce (.253 last year) anchors the other side of the diamond, wielding a glove around third base as well as anyone in these parts. Burke St. John hit .323 and was second on the squad in rbis a year ago, and if his fielding improves he could have few peers at shortstop...
Have a happy birthday ol' Diamond...
...wrestling tournament, waiting for your first match. You look across at your opponent; he's wearing boat sneakers instead of wrestling shoes, dark socks (with the little sky-blue diamond embroidered in), he's got a purple tie-dye shirt under his singlet, and the whole outfit is crowned by his Dutch-boy haircut...
...each layer. Then the entire wafer is coated with an aluminum conductor, which also must be masked, etched and bathed in acid. Finally, an eagle-eyed computerized probe scans the wafer for defective circuitry and marks the bad chips in red. The wafer is then separated by a diamond cutter, the bad chips are discarded and the good ones externally wired, sealed in plastic or metal and shipped off to the user...
Gucci's Rodeo shop had sales of $ 15 million last year and attracts as many as 2,000 people a day. They buy "necessities" as varied as $89 loafers and $200,000 diamond-and-pearl necklaces, and they exercise their eccentricities. One man arrives regularly in a white Rolls-Royce, carrying Dom Pérignon in a paper bag, sits down to drink with the help and customers, then drives away, usually without buying anything. Another buys Gucci presents for friends from an attache case stuffed with hundred-dollar bills; he also likes to drink champagne out of new Gucci loafers...