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...taken quite a bit of heat," said the 37-year-old shortstop and centerfielder, referring to the ribbing he got from his teammates during his chase. He had gone hitless in his last seven at bats. Yount will go down in the record books: so will Cleveland hurler Jose Mesa, as the guy who threw the pitch that Yount swatted into history...
Cohen defeated Karolyn Smith of Mesa College for the title...
...exultant. "For us it's a victory," he said. "I'm very pleased with our kids." The Dominicans had, after all, come within eight runs of tying the Cubans. The Cuban pitcher, for his part, complained that he'd had a bad day. And the smiling Cuban centerfielder Victor Mesa (a.k.a. "El Loco") bubbled over with noblesse ; oblige: "The Dominican Republic should be very proud to lose only 8-0." Across town that afternoon, where another dominant Dream Team was on display, the responses were almost identical. "Our objective has been to keep them within a 45-point range," said...
...their black students, they give them less attention and do not push them as hard to do well. Such stereotypes have crossed racial barriers to the point where even black teachers may hold these same attitudes. "If teachers feel they cannot make any headway with a youngster," says Richard Mesa, superintendent of Oakland public schools, "they may write...
...fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways and houses. Industry then rushed in and created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, but not enough new housing was built...