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Baker has been playing sax since he was 12 years old (he's now 27), and he concedes that music is his life. When he isn't playing for Sha Na Na, he's playing in jam sessions down on Cape Cod. Yet as much as music means to him, he doesn't see the Sha Na Na act as strictly musical...
...Israeli presence was no joke. There was a traffic jam at the canal that stretched back for miles. Tanks, trucks and vans of every description-many with ON TO CAIRO scrawled on their sides-waited their turn to cross the bridges. The western bank was swarming with men and machines. The litter of blackened tanks and trucks of both ar mies and the stench of rotting corpses in the canal attested to the fierceness of the battle that had produced this new "bulge" in Egypt. We were soon speeding away from the bridgehead on a route that was to bring...
...electronic gun sight on the attacking aircraft. That is all it takes to send the missile accurately along a radar beam to the target. To make matters even worse for the enemy, the frequency of the missile's radar systems can be changed quickly, making it difficult to jam or confuse them with electronic countermeasures...
...victim's aggrieved followers. Rucci's death resulted in a 30-hour general strike that closed even airports and grocery stores. To protest the kidnaping of a bus-union leader, 300 bus drivers last week abandoned their vehicles in the Plaza de Mayo, creating the biggest traffic jam in the city's history...
...only cure is to wait two months between short stories, and this the reader is urged to do. One of the best stories in the first of the collection (thus readable immediately, with no waiting) is called Southern Throughway. It concerns a monstrous traffic jam that develops when vacationers make the mistake of trying to return to Paris one hot Sunday afternoon. As sweat, futility, broiled metal and curses coagulate into semi-permanency (the jam continues through the night, through the next day, the next night, endures for a week, persists for a month, maybe for two months, well into...