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...Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean off." If the Soviet Union had invaded and installed a puppet government in Washington, one could not imagine a more profoundly un-American summer than the one that suddenly seemed in prospect...
...genius for attracting important people to her crusade. For 18 years the elegantly impoverished daughter of Renishaw lived in unfashionable Bayswater. Her literary teas Evelyn Waugh summed up tersely as "stale buns and no chairs." Yet what names eagerly scrambled up the dingy stairs to knock on her "nasty green door." T.S. Eliot, Ravel, Diaghilev, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats were among the Olympians one might have met at the Sitwells' salons...
...harder and harder politically for us to do something militarily." What particularly worried the Israeli leaders was not so much the threat the disputed missiles posed to their reconnaissance flights, but the credibility of Israeli military forces in the eyes of the Syrians. After repeatedly asserting that they would knock out the missiles, explained one top U.S. official, the Israelis might feel compelled to act simply to demonstrate that their words could be backed up by deeds...
...upsetting to see people do immature things, like tear down posters, carve on walls, knock down stakes in the Yard, write on tables. I had thought Harvard would be a cut above, but I learned people are just human. It's hard to accept, and a little absurd to be destroving things when the same people 20 years from now will be giving money to Harvard, if their parents aren't already. It's not what I expected. The Marines would never have put up with that crap...
...Allard and vinnie Martelli continued their assults on the Crimson record for runs batted in in a season--Mike Stenhouse's 40 in 1977--in the second game. With Harvard leading, 4-1, in the fifth. Martelli lined a single off Dartmouth's starter and loser, Brian Hebert to knock in two runs...