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...slumbering lumber of Eddie Murray awoke with startling quickness last night, as did tempers on both teams, and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 11-1 to take a two-games-to-one lead in the American League playoffs...
...incidentally, stands for Throneberry, the first baffling circumstance in last week's bizarre comeback story of a baseball bat that hit the losing home run. Wood is not a casual concern to ballplayers. Why a .353 hitter like Brett would lumber along with a Marvelous Marv Throneberry model (lifetime .237) is the sort of paradox that, scientists say, has trees talking to themselves. With two men out and one runner on base in the top of the ninth inning, the New York Yankees leading the Royals, 4-3, Brett took up his gooey cudgel and went out to meet...
...Administration's commitment to free trade, however, has been shaky. While the White House has withstood the demands of groups like the lumber and machine-tool industries that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free...
...alumni of '56 include a cattle rancher, the chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, a philosopher, professors, the director of the National Gallery of Art, a priest, a librarian, a lumber wholesaler, an ambassador, a television correspondent, an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a state senator, a pathologist, a househusband, a pilot, a salesman of women's shoes, and a mediator of environmental disputes...
...stepped down to where we were anyway. He was wearing a lumber-jack shirt and pointy boots. "I believe we haven't met," he said, calmly dusting his hands off before clapping us each on a shoulder. "Lenny here is deceiving you a bit. That's no Death's Angels hat he's wearing--he's my newest lab assistant Sometimes called...