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City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 proposed a ban on cigarette vending machines last month. The committee discussed last night the possibility of a "lockout device" designed to prevent minors from buying cigarettes...
...insists. "We have a search committee in progress. But it's hard to say when." A shrewd guess is not until there is a new baseball labor agreement. The owners fear that a new commissioner -- no matter how limited his formal mandate -- would try to avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent. "Any commissioner with any strength is going to cause trouble for them." Fans view a charismatic commissioner, like the late Bart Giamatti, as their tribune, the only...
Just over an hour and a half later, my exam completed, I returned to the scene of the lockout. Standing on the steps in front of Claverly, I pondered where next to turn...
...owners' sins. The Cincinnati Reds' Marge Schott scrambled to apologize for slurs against "Jew bastards" and "million-dollar niggers." (Jesse Jackson called the phrases "shots heard around the world" and promised further protests.) The moguls also voted to try renegotiating the players' union contract, though a spring lockout would cripple already ailing attendance. In a horrifying climax, Florida Marlins president Carl Barger suffered an aneurysm during the owners' final meeting and died a few hours later...
More immediately, owners, desperate to restructure the game's player-compensation system, will likely greet the 1993 season with a lockout until a new agreement with the players' union is ratified. A cancellation of the entire season is not out of the question...