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...irresistibly realized. There are those special breeds of Levantines and Greeks who stick it out on the ragged edges of free enterprise; the inevitable scholars, priests and primitive-art collectors; old servants who have made parasitism an honorable profession; and promising young men who will go directly from dugout to jet. The economy of the town remains fairly simple. Villagers from the bush sell smoked monkey meat to steamer passengers. The money is used to buy pots, cloth and razor blades from the shops in town. The shopowners can then eat Bigburgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from the Fourth World | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...legitimate pro prospect, with a fastball that sends the JUGS gun into the high 80s, a knack for changing speeds well, and a personality that just exudes baseball. You see Larry Brown on the ballfield just once and you almost have to think that he was born in a dugout...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: What's Wrong, Brownie? | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...that monitors press freedom, reported in 1976 that 15 developing nations had expelled or refused entry to foreign correspondents in the previous year, and the rate has probably increased since then. Nigeria has booted out nearly all resident foreign journalists; the last Reuters man there was put into a dugout canoe with his wife and eight-year-old daughter and advised to start rowing toward neighboring Benin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Third World vs. Fourth Estate | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...Yankees went through their death throes in the eighth. Dodger shortstop Bill Russell's second error of the night set up two runs, as he threw a sure double play ball into the dugout...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Round One Belongs to the Dodgers, 11-5 | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

After Bill Robinson and Willie Stargell were intentionally walked to load the bases, Brusstar came in to pitch. He balked before delivering his second pitch to Phil Garner and Parker trotted home with the winning run as the stunned Phillies walked toward the dugout...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Sox, Yanks Both Win; Pirates Sweep Phillies | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

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