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...Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home the winning run in the eleventh inning: "This was to prove to the Dodgers and the rest of the league that we're for real...
Pity the adolescent caught between the grip of nature and the vise of society. At puberty, nature rushes him toward sexual awareness. Society puts up a fence of conventions. In this play, written in repressively conventional 1891 by German Playwright Frank Wedekind, some of the adolescents are impaled on the fence...
Play was brutal in the opening five minutes, and it remained so throughout the epic 120-minute battle. Kempes and star Dutch midfielder Jan Neeskens were both bloodied by the end of the contest. Referee Sergio Gonella never got a grip on the game, as he not only let rough play go unfettered, but also played to the partisan home crowd with numerous pro-Argentina calls...
OHIO (June 6). The Republican primary should signal whether James Rhodes, 68, who has been Governor longer than any of his predecessors (11% years), is losing his grip and is in danger of being unseated in November. Rhodes' primary opponent, House Minority Leader Charles Kurfess, 48, contends that the complacent Rhodes is "Ohio's biggest energy crisis." One of his party's restive younger activists, Kurfess is being totally ignored by the Governor. This strategy will probably work, but if Kurfess were to draw 40% or more of the vote, Rhodes could be in serious trouble against...
Womack claims this specialization makes Marxism especially neccessary. "Marxism is the soundest perspective which gives us a grip on the world as a whole," he said...