Word: larks
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...summer, it seemed a bit of a lark. Sure, Yaz was making fans realize that Ted Williams wasn't the only hitter who ever played in Boston. And Jim Lonborg revived memories of Mel Parnell. But near the end of August, the fans came out of the bars. They had the funny feeling that for once Fenway Park might be the scene of something not outrageously funny...
...back in Washington, advising both his own aides and the White House that he did not want any official statements-or unofficial ones for that matter-to be put out about the wedding. Next day he was meeting with visiting Latin American foreign ministers, imperturbably puffing his usual Lark. His daughter and new son-in-law were off on a long-weekend honeymoon in Southern California. Peggy was due back at Stanford and Guy at his job this week, both with a little history-making behind them...
...phenomenon is still seasonal-thousands of teen-agers who ran away in June for a summer-long taste of the hippie life were wending their way back home last week for the beginning of school. But for an increasing number of tormented teenagers, running away is not a lark but a desperately serious act for which returning home is an all but unthinkable conclusion...
...much gold, technical virtuosity, brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle, an affair of national pride, purpose and prestige that so far has cost the competitors, winners and losers combined, an estimated $50 million-with no guarantees on the investment except that somebody would win and somebody else would lose...
...Meadows' lark, he confesses to have learned his lesson. "One thing I know," he said last week, "I'm no damn expert. You won't find me buying paintings ever again without the advice of a museum director." What will he do with those fakes that he is stuck with? "I might build me a room on the side of the house in Dallas," mused Meadows. "It will be the 'My Experience with Fake Paintings' room. I'd add just one more picture-one of myself, and call...