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Daley, on the other hand, seemed only too happy about the strike. "Thanks for your kind offer of a column outlet. The football season has ended. The basketball season has hardly started. The baseball season has yet to begin. IT jes' looks as though there ain't nuthin' doing nowhere, nohow. From a column-writing standpoint, this strike is perfect. I've just finished hanging on my door a sign, 'Do not disturb'. I aim to catch up on my sleep. No runs, no hits, no errors...
...time, works his way toward the cage, and then finally lets go a perfect shot to tie things up for us. When he came back to the bench, I asked him why he had taken so much time. Howe tells me, in that drawl of his: 'Ah jes wanted to make sure.'" Adds Coach Ivan: "He usually does make sure...
Argentina's two top diplomats switched jobs last week. In as Foreign Minister went Jerónimo Remorino, 48, succeeding Hipólito Jesús Paz, 34, who took Remorino's former post as ambassador...
...adventure" was a clumsy conspiracy by which an obscure young infantry captain named Jesús Velasco had hoped to hand out a few hundred rifles and a couple of machine guns to opposition-party civilians, start them shooting, then take over the presidency for the civilian plotters. But somebody talked, and Gálvez quietly squelched the plan without a bullet being fired or a viva sounded. Velasco and four confederates were sent to jail, while two others fled for asylum to the Guatemalan embassy...
...Mexican press took a fine, impartial stand, applauding the government's expulsion order, but deploring the loss of a good shortstop. La Prensa's sport editor philosophically pointed out that, after all, everyone knows that Mexican umpires walk out on the field with "Jesús en la boca" (i.e., with a prayer on their lips...