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...speed to his slightly uncertain fielding. In a game against the New York Mets-which Garr won in the 12th inning by uncharacteristically blasting an opposite-field home run-he robbed Met Shortstop Bud Harrelson of a sure triple with a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch at full gallop. "They say a man can't outrun a baseball," groaned Harrelson, "but Ralph Garr...
Consummate Concoctions. Leading the gallop to gloppiness is Baskin-Robbins, a California-based franchise chain with $52 million in annual sales (up 30% from 1969) and more than 900 ice cream stores sprinkled across the country. The company is the nation's largest take-out chain specializing in "hard" ice cream; it sells more of the stuff than even Howard Johnson's, where, it is commonly said, the ice cream comes in 28 flavors and the food comes...
...Army mule is a horse of another color." McCurdy said. "We are saddled with problems. We must depend upon unbridled ferocity as we take the bit in our teeth and hopefully gallop to victory. Whoa... enough of that...
...Gold. The market's rise is based largely on hope. Says Peter Vlachos, Dreyfus Leverage Fund's manager: "The market is now anticipating that the Administration's reflationary measures will work, that full employment will be restored, and that inflation will not return to its former gallop." Investors figure that if the economy continues to lag and drag, the Administration will have to reduce taxes (see page 82). Sifted through this kind of faith, even leaden news is transformed into gold. Investors even took an optimistic view of last week's report that the industrial production...
From this point the plot moves at a gallop, but it is really only a stalking-horse for the author's polished mockery and his gallery of fantastics. Catholicism corrupts, he clearly thinks, and churchliness corrupts absolutely. Every plot, from Anna's murder to Arthur's adultery, has priestly blessing. Farragan's ultimate betrayer, his wife, is a seemingly saintly lady who spends her passion on canonization drives for violated virgins...