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Second baseman Dave Cash scored one run and batted in another to give Pirate pitcher Dock Ellis the victory. Donn Clendennon knocked in the only run for the Mets...
Herschel Bernardi is another talent entombed in a seemingly moribund CBS property. Arnie, as his series is titled, has a possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
Though Colonsay boasts only one store and a pub, McPhee writes, "things amplify. It may be the light." The mountains seem bigger than they are, the cairns like fortresses, the people like characters out of sagas, even though they are cattle farmers, shepherds, dock keepers, postmen, laborers-sometimes a little of each. The past, running easily into the present, gives it a special meaning. Donald Gibbie, for example, worked ceaselessly to earn the equivalent of $1,500 a year. Nevertheless, being a blood-proud descendant of the island's ancient chiefs, when he happens to walk past a particular...
Measure of Distress. After several futile attempts to stamp out black-marketeering in the collectives in Vinh Phuc province, Party Theoretician Truong Chinh lamented that "corruption still remains, just like weeds that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...
...Parliament adjourned for its summer recess at the end of last week, nobody would have been surprised to see its Conservative members run -not walk-to the exits. Prime Minister Edward Heath's fifth week in office had been marked by one bad break after another: a continuing dock strike, an untimely death in the Prime Minister's official family, a Commonwealth-wide uproar over the proposed sale of arms to South Africa, and the most serious act of violence in the hallowed House of Commons since Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot to death in a lobby...