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...Zachary a more appropriate historical analogue. In 19 big-league seasons with six teams, Zachary won 186 games and managed to collect two World Series rings, one with the Washington Senators in 1924 and one with the storied St. Louis Cardinals in 1926. But Zachary's best-known feat remains tossing the hanger Babe Ruth hit for number...
...Republicans' great credit that they have managed to keep the word impeachment floating in the air for so long. This is a feat, considering that polls point in the opposite direction. They have accomplished it in a statesmanlike manner by announcing again and again, even when not asked, that when the time comes to consider impeachment, they will do so, and meanwhile they reserve judgment. This is sort of like your brother-in-law saying that although you're probably in perfectly good health, there is an ashenness in your complexion that suggests terminal liver cancer, and God forbid...
John Glenn, of course, will head into space again this year on a shuttle at the age of 77--an admirable feat for a geezer but no longer the irreplaceable original. In those days, rockets named for the god Apollo went up from Cape Kennedy like chariots of fire and carried a cargo of such elemental significance and mystery that even Norman Mailer was awed and knocked off his ego for an hour or two. Mailer wrote that Cape Kennedy was "the antechamber of the new creation...
...technical unions (IATSE) to meet with him, after explaining that IATSE not only barred blacks from membership but also accepted only the sons of its members into the union. I merely knocked on the door. Dr. King persuaded or shamed IATSE into opening its membership, an incredible feat. He was an incredible man. To walk behind him was one of the most memorable experiences of my life, and I'm very proud to have been the first major actor to speak out on civil rights, against all advice in this town. CHARLTON HESTON Beverly Hills, Calif...
...fill on the starting team. The other 22 slots were filled by the American League manager: this year Cleveland's Jim Hargrove. He had to choose at least one player from each of the league's 15 teams. Yet he managed to select five Yankees--no mean mathematical feat...