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Innocence and ebullience-these are realities of baseball that transcend contracts and lawsuits. Bill Veeck sits in his Chicago office, looking at the 15-in. file drawer on his desk that contains some 1,500 promotional ideas, pondering which one to spring on his White Sox followers next. It is no wonder he expects more than a million paid through his gates this year. Milwaukee Brewer Boss Bud Selig, 41, comes right out and calls baseball show biz. His competition? Not other sports, but "movies, the circus, rock concerts." His market? Youth. A 1975 survey showed that the average...
Facing the end, Nixon talked openly of suicide to his trusted aide, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. "You fellows in your business," Nixon told the temporarily retired general, "you have a way of handling problems like this. Somebody leaves a pistol in the drawer. I don't have a pistol." It was, suggest the authors, "as if he were half asking to be given one." After that incident, Haig passed orders that Nixon not be allowed any pills, fearing he might take an overdose...
...radar jammers and pilotless "drone" aircraft that can be programmed to fly over an enemy's turf, photograph installations and drop bombs. Another division in Dallas makes high-technology civilian products, including tiny devices that can be used to foil bank robbers. Placed in a teller's drawer, the device will trigger an alarm when a teller removes the last bill in a stack, thus reducing pressure...
...Follette said yesterday the papers were discovered in the bottom drawer of a dresser purchased in a "shoddy Boston antique store." The antique dealer, realizing after the sale that the papers were in the dresser, tried to sell them to Smith for $120 or retain them...
...that the essence of alienation?" Still wandering, he went on to observe that a character in the Dubliners kept a rotting apple in his desk, which reminded him that the only way Schiller could compose poetry was with an apple giving off fumes in his desk drawer. That in turn reminded the professor of the dangers of becoming too academic. "If anyone connects this rotting apple with the Fall, he will immediately lose 20 points," he said...