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Though the Orioles were not wanting for heroes, they agreed to a man that Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was the spark that ignited their attack-just as he has for most of his seasons at Baltimore. Son of a Little Rock fireman, Brooks was a star quarterback in high school who selected baseball over football and, ironically, the Orioles over the Reds, the one other team that was negotiating for him. Signed for a paltry $4,000 at 18, he was so impressive that Umpire Ed Burley remarked after one game: "Robinson plays third like he came down from...
Roger Paynter, a 49-year-old New York City fireman with a son at New York University, was outraged when N.Y.U. canceled his son's classes for 19 days amid the national wave of campus protests over Cambodia and Kent State. "I paid for my son's education, and the university should make it available to him," he said. As a result, Paynter sued N.Y.U. in the city's small claims court, asking for 19 days' worth of his money back. According to the university, its catalogue clearly stated that academic programs and requirements were subject...
...Government of the United States or the government of any state." Other proposals would provide for imprisonment of anyone who urges "the desirability or necessity of urban terrorism" or who belongs to an organization that does. Still another would make it a federal crime to kill a policeman, fireman or judge if the object was to attack a "symbol of the Establishment." Among the key sponsors of the anti-terrorism bills are South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond and Mississippi Democrat James Eastland...
Sobbing and Swooning. Her eyes were big and soulful. Her body was broad, her legs heavy, her voice a trombone blare. Propounding the "Foursquare Gospel," she dressed sometimes in gauzy robes that floated out behind her like angel wings. Sometimes she appeared in the uniform of a sailor, fireman or traffic cop ("Stop! You are breaking God's law!"). She illustrated her sermons with skits or pantomimes and composed oratorios for a chorus of 500. The effect of all this was hallucinogenic. Five thousand listeners gasped and sobbed and swooned...
Total Recall. Part II is set in Venezuela. Papillon becomes an honest citizen. He marries and works variously as gold prospector, nightclub manager, fireman, bush-league dentist, commercial shrimp fisherman. More than 20 years pass. It is 1967. He is over 60 now, and down on his luck. He reads a book of prison memoirs by an Algerian-born lady ex-con named Albertine Sarrazin. Hastily, he buys 13 school notebooks. In a few months, apparently with near total recall, he scribbles Part I (1931 to 1945) in longhand and mails it to Sarrazin's editors in Paris. Called...