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DIED. DICK RADATZ, 67, fearsome relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and other American League teams; of head injuries suffered in a fall down a flight of stairs in his home; in Easton, Mass. Dubbed the Monster, the 6-ft. 6-in. hurler struck out Mickey Mantle 44 times in 63 tries and still holds the record for strikeouts in a single season by a relief pitcher...
...Congress didn't look all that much better with its relentless grandstanding. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Democrat from Maryland, asked Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, the opening witness and an ex--big league great, about a pitch he threw to Mickey Mantle. Representative Diane Watson, Democrat from California, dissed Arnold Schwarzenegger by flashing a 1987 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover featuring the Republican California Governor, an ex-steroid user, flexing under the headline HOT STUFF. Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen praised Cuban American Canseco for hailing from Miami. "It was a terrible day for baseball," says former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent...
...political quip that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war. The Golden Arches have replaced the circled, upside-down Y with a line in the middle as the symbol of peace. Once the electricity is running in Baghdad, I think someone should open a Mickey-Dees...
...year after Janet Jackson's faulty bustier burst into a controversy over values, another star's plan to show some (wrinklier) skin during the Super Bowl has been foiled. In a 15-second ad shot for the cold remedy Airborne, MICKEY ROONEY, 84, is lounging in a sauna when a woman coughs, prompting the apparently germophobic Andy Hardy star to scream and scamper off, dropping his towel and exposing his backside in his haste. Fox deemed the spot "inappropriate for broadcast television," a rep says, and has declined to air it during the Feb. 6 game. But Rooney, who says...
...overachievers feels compelled to rush through remaining requirements. More likely, however, if standards are too low and courses are offered only on a pass/fail basis for instance, J-term risks becoming, in the words of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, “Mickey Mouse...