Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kaline and threw a pitch that only a handful of men in the game could have hit; a fastball, low and away. AI kaline is one of that handful, and Curtis turned to watch as his pitch found its final home in the arms of a Tiger fan, 420 feet from home plate 1-0, Tigers...
Their feats are impressive to the fan examining the Sunday paper to find who did what to whom and how badly And the nation's sportswriters take note, too. Each team does everything it can to impress them while hoping for a high rank in the week's football evaluation...
...Lear, skirted the problem. One of the sections he presides over as a senior editor is Show Business & TV. He assigned himself to write the story, then served as his own editor. No one could quarrel with his credentials in either role. Since childhood he has been a committed fan and sometime practitioner of the performing arts. "When I was a moviegoing youth," he recalls, "I think I would have been willing to die for Ingrid Bergman." At Yale, Porterfield composed, arranged and conducted the music for his own jazz groups. His fickle affections, meanwhile, shifted from Bergman...
...member department is buttressed by a $3.5 million annual budget, and has a young legal staff that is empowered to move swiftly to prosecute businessmen who break consumer laws and to get back money for customers who can show that they were cheated. The department's 80 inspectors fan out daily through the city to check stores and issue citations on violations, including improper labeling and false weights and measures; fines range as high as $250. Notes Myerson: "The main thing is to aim the artillery at the people who are preying on the poor...
...image of Michelangelo's David linger on the screen while she digresses on Renaissance political thought; a golfer can stop Jack Nicklaus' swing just at the point where his own club usually goes awry. Using disks instead of tape does have a disadvantage; a video fan cannot make his own recordings. Both the Sony U-matic and the Cartrivision system can be sold with their own cameras for home taping, for at least $250 extra. On the other hand, most companies offer cassettes that do not work on a competitor's player-a situation reminiscent...