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...Arizona's largest dry-goods merchandiser, young Barry started out in the family business. In 1949 he was so disgusted with the corrupt city government in Phoenix that he ran for city council. Three years later he was elected to the Senate on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails. But he never would be, as he put it, a "me-too Republican." Goldwater summed up his views in The Conscience of a Conservative (1960): "My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence...
Baseballs routinely bounced out of gloves and over walls, including the well-oiled one of Boston Rightfielder Dwight Evans. Of 20 World Series veterans involved in the postseason, only Evans was found at his old stand, a commentary on the baseball business that even the Mets players might contemplate. Before the series, when casually asked about the Game 3 home run he hit eleven years ago off Cincinnati, Evans looked up in astonishment. "Nobody remembers that," he insisted. "That was the greatest thrill of my career. I'm the only one who remembers that." Now he has hit two more...
...details deserve further comment. Mr. Cole points out that Roger Clemens did not beat the Mets and suggests that "he's used to anemic American League hitters." I won't accuse Mr. Cole of deliberately neglecting to mention that the demigod Dwight Gooden fared even more poorly against Boston than Clemens did against New York. Second, Mr. Cole suggests that the Red Sox "would trade their whole team" for Darryl Strawberry, adding to the chorus of praise that always greets the most overhyped player in the history of baseball. If Mr. Cole cares to check, he would discover that Dwight...
...Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, introduced Han as a Chinese diplomat who played "a central part in the normalization of relations between China...
When Boston took the opening pair of games in New York City's Shea Stadium -- 1-0 on a ball that skittered through the western legs of Second Baseman Tim Teufel, and 9-3 on the first of two dark episodes for Mets Ace Dwight Gooden -- McNamara said pointedly, "We probably aren't the greatest ball club in the world." The Mets smiled weakly. In 13 big league years at a rash of stands, this manager has been a man of rare civility and rotten luck. His 1981 Cincinnati Reds won more games than any other team but were gerrymandered...