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Hitting has not been the Cubs' only strength. A year ago the team had the worst fielding record in the league; now it has a sure-handed outfield, as well as a first-class double-play combination. With some intensive tutoring by low-key Manager Jim Marshall, a former major league first baseman who took over the Cubs midway into last season, Chicago fielders are no longer making careless errors...
...first, they thought that they might launch a series of new diplomatic initiatives to show the world that the U.S. is not moribund. But then they decided that that might aggravate the problem of credibility more than it would help. Thus the approach at Brussels will be steady and low-key. Ford, who will set aside time for every head of state in private, will not propose sweeping reappraisals but will reaffirm old ties, old friendships and promise new dimensions to the programs that exist, the alliances that endure. After Brussels, however, Ford will meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
Jurovick expects this first season to be "low-key." A Brown meet in early May is the only meet scheduled so far this spring. He said he will also approach the Liberty Runners--a women's track club in Lexington...
...kitchen in Jordan J--one of the Radcliffe co-ops--is the late-afternoon nucleus of the house, where residents gather around the newspaper-strewn table for conversation and last-minute directions from the evening's chef. There is a feeling of low-key closeness as the 23 co-op members drift in to the airy dining room to share a meal which conspicuously lacks the plastic trays and cafeteria lines faced by most of Harvard's population each evening...
...obviously doesn't believe in acting as the motivating factor, for implicit in his way of basketball thinking is the idea that the players should be able to motivate themselves, without any excess patting on the back from the coach. This way of thinking is consistent with his whole low-key approach to the game. Whether it produces victories is questionable...