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...East division, they pretty much had to lose three straight games to the New York Mets, and they pretty nearly did. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog rearranged Ace John Tudor's date with Darth Gooden only to lock Tudor and well-bred Yalie Ron Darling into a 0-0 death grip, broken like a windowpane on an eleventh-inning Darryl Strawberry home run that, except for the stadium clock being digital, put spectators in mind of Roy Hobbs. Naturally, Gooden won the second game, his 24th victory at 20 years old, but the third ended in a nervous stream of Cardinal...
...pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques along the way. She shrink- wrapped herself in Saran Wrap for three or four nights before one competition last year ("You lose a little bit of water"), and has used an athletic adhesive called Firm Grip to keep the bottom of her bathing suit in place ("Everybody uses it. I'm so firm I don't need much"). Her immediate plans? "I want to make a lot of money," she says both candidly and cheerfully, "and meet a lot of people...
Harvard was unimpressed. Vice President for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck, an outspoken critic of the tightening grip on academic integrity, voiced fears that the report--which did not make policy recommendations--would bring on its heels new sweeps of classification and restriction. We share those fears, and a Defense Department spokesman's prediction that the report will be used to lobby for a decrease in the number of Soviet scientists allowed to come here and for more pre-publication review did little to dispel them...
...University's economic and political agendas. For the first time, Bok seems unabashedly unhindered by the fact that countless other suffering peoples could also benefit from Harvard's assistance. Whether Bok has opened a humanitarian Pandora's box has yet to be determined. Clearly, he has broken the paralytic grip that constrained him in the face of daunting moral challenges...
...launchers is dominated by rows of seven lights showing the status of each missile, ranging from "dummy" (the missile is passive) to "missile away." Each weapon has been pretargeted and carries highly sophisticated, computer-controlled guidance systems. The final release would be performed by Hardenbergh with a pistol-grip firing trigger attached to his console. The missiles are propelled through their silos by compressed gas, which then forms a bubble around them until they reach the water's surface and ignite automatically...