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...lore of lefthanders is filled with tales of young fireballers like the Dodgers' Karl Spooner or Cleveland's Herb Score who, through injury or accident, ended their careers in one quick flameout. "Vida's one of those kids who come along once in a lifetime," says Posedel. "He throws awful hard, and the only thing you don't know is if his arm is ready for it." Says A's Manager Dick Williams: "I'd like to keep him in a glass case between starts...
...whole underground lore of overseas moneysaving is being built up by waves of knapsackers. New tips are communicated almost instantaneously through a transnational grapevine. Among recent intelligence reports: sleeping in London's St. James's and Green parks, though normally forbidden by police, is being tolerated this year. University cafeterias in Germany and Switzerland sell rib-sticking meals for less than a half dollar. Specially cheap flights within Europe are offered by the British Student Travel Center and other official youth organizations to full-time high school and college students who have convincing identification. Sample one-way prices...
Nearly all the girl hitchhikers are white and under 20. Their attackers, however, are generally not the "dirty old men" of lore, but young men in their 20s out cruising for trusting girls who feel "safe" riding with someone their own age. Said one policeman: "These girls believe their mothers' stories about the 'dirty old men.' They think anyone over 30 is out to get them. So they hop into a car driven by a young guy with long hair and beads. These are the guys who, in most cases, are committing the assaults...
...accidents will happen. The new waterbed lore includes the story of a West Coast couple whose mattress sprang a leak. With help from neighbors, they wrestled it out of their apartment onto a balcony, which promptly collapsed under the unaccustomed weight. Another householder, filling his waterbed on the lawn to test it, stood amazed when it began rolling downhill, amoeba-like, oozing over hedges and crushing gardens before squooshing to a halt. Mr. and Mrs. James Klopp, of Mountain View, Calif., fell asleep on their new waterbed while it was filling, and awakened to find their bedroom awash...
...ancestor of mine, Daniel Gustavus Rollins. I had been reading the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine since the fourth grade, had attended football games played by my brother Phillip, had heard of my father's kicking a field goal which helped Dartmouth beat Princeton in 1929. With all of this lore behind me, I studied the freshman manual, learned all of the Dartmouth songs before I arrived on campus, never went out those first few months without my freshman cap (which meant that during freshman week I carried a lot of furniture for upperclassmen) and got myself royally drunk (i.e., in Dartmouth...