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...helps that many of ITT's publicists are former newsmen. Company flacks often go to press clubs, attend the weekly lunches of U.S. correspondents' associations abroad and put in appearances at meetings of journalistic societies like Sigma Delta Chi. Says ITT's Washington News Director John Homer: "It's good for us, and frequently it's good for them...
...used to political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff the pun until it shone...
...Willie Stargell on four straight pitches, moving Clemente to second. Then, with a 1-1 count on First Baseman Bob Robertson, Roberto tried to call a time-out to get the sign straight. Too late. Robertson drove the next pitch into the right centerfield mezzanine for a three-run homer. As Robertson crossed the plate, Stargell exclaimed: "Attaway to bunt!" Bunt? Robertson had missed the bunt sign. Final score: Pirates 5, Orioles...
...last seven weeks of the season without a home run. He drilled one over the rightfield wall to cinch a 2-1 Pittsburgh victory. Lest it seem like luck, Hebner then helped the Pirates mop up the Giants 9-5 in the final game with a three-run homer. He also provided a vital ninth-inning out by leaping into the stands to snatch a foul ball away from a covey of overeager hometown fans. San Francisco left with the dubious distinction of being the first losing team in three years of playoffs to win so much as a single...
Blass, a 29 year old right hander, kept the Orioles tethered with no-hit pitching through the fifth inning while the Bucs nabbed losing pitcher Mike Cuellar, one of Baltimore's four 20-game winners, for seven hits capped by Bob Robertson's three run homer in the bottom of the seventh. Robertson had been given the bunt sign on a 1-1 count and two on but missed the signal and hit a blast over the 385 mark in right field...