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...Friday night was quiet. Fifty thousand fans filed out of Olympic Stadium, victims of a one-man wrecking crew named Mike Schmidt. The Philadelphia slugger had knocked home both runs of a 2-1 victory, one with a sacrifice fly and one with a homer. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, an erratic, lefthanded screwballer who had singlehandedly willed the New York Mets to the National League pennant in 1973, came on to strike out five men in relief, and suddenly the Expos were one game en arriere and one game away from elimination...
Archer is now at work on a 30-minute film based on his book. Consisting mostly of self-test sequences introduced by him, it will be distributed next year by McGraw-Hill to corporations, universities and governmental agencies...
...Board Director James Aljian ($1.8 million). Two of Mobil Corp.'s top executives were also in the millionaires' club: Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. ($4.3 million) and President William Tavoulareas ($2.3 million). The fourth top earner was Richard Vieser, executive vice president of the electrical equipment manufacturer McGraw-Edison ($2.6 million...
...McGraw's silver screen appeal doesn't thrill the VISTA people, who wish she and reporters would stick to the issue--their promo campaign. Their prayers are answered when the van pulls off the highway in the South End and parks in front of a VISTA-run refuge for battered women. Tabankin is here to find out how well the VISTA program is working. McGraw is here to learn. As reporters look on, she speaks with the organizer of the home for a few minutes, and the first time she raises her voice above a whisper...
...home are unmoved. The VISTA volunteers calmly ask all the men to leave (except the filmmakers) and begin their scheduled discussion on battered women. A battered wife speaks for some time, describing her experiences. Her account is followed by several others. All these women have been beaten, McGraw realizes, horror slowly registering on her Pacific-tanned face as she discretely twists her necklace around so the diamond doesn't show...