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Gould excels at using the familiar to introduce the arcane. The flamingo of Florida postcards and golf courses seems to smile because it feeds with its head upside down. The adaptation suggests that evolution does not always take the easiest way up. Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey developed his investigative skills studying vespid insects, thus giving fuller meaning to the term stirring up a hornet's nest. The disappearance of .400 hitters in baseball, says Gould, may have less to do with equipment changes than with standardizing methods of play...
Installation in the Baseball Hall of Fame guarantees immortality, not maturity. Mickey Mantle could switch-hit with phenomenal power, round the bases in less than 13 seconds and outrun fly balls to deepest Yankee Stadium. He could also injure himself in battles with water coolers and golf clubs, and / get so hung over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing...
...next, General Motors delivers a fleet of 20 Cadillac limousines to be used by visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley of the Ming Tombs, with prospects of ski slopes, a racetrack and a hotel to be built nearby...
...even greater benefit to fans is the fact that their local newspapers will no longer have to fill their sports pages with minor league results and local golf tournament news...
...underground room, 20 ft. square, which he believes was a command bunker. Brown, who kept a diary on folded white paper, got to be known as "the Coach" by his fellow hostages because he insisted that they all exercise each day. Brown's contingent devised a game of imaginary golf, playing mind shots on a course laid out verbally by Robert Trautmann Jr., 37, a Laredo, Texas, developer. At one chilling point, one of the original two hijackers swaggered into the bunker-like room in West Beirut and said, "Hi, do you know me?" When no one answered, he waved...