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Most people have probably never heard of Bill Lee, a former southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and later the Montreal Expos. Lee, nicknamed "The Spaceman" by his teammates and the local press for his eccentricity and outrageous antics, is the standard-bearer of the newly-formed American wing of the Rhinoceros Party. Running on a slogan of "No guns, no butter--they'll both kill ya," Lee represents a satirical political party based in Canada. More than 100,000 of our Northern neighbors voted Rhino...
...University and several colleagues found routine mammograms in women under 50 to be of so little benefit that women may not consider the screening worth the trouble. An accompanying editorial took the findings even further. Declared Dr. John Bailar III, a physician and medical statistician at McGill University in Montreal: "The evidence . . . does not demonstrate any clear health benefit from mammographic screening for breast cancer in women younger than 50 years . . . Routine screening of this age group should be discontinued...
...Montreal (91-71, NL East, third): The Expos have the offense to stay close. Tim Wallach (.298, 26 HR, 123 RBI) and Tim Raines lead the Expo attack. Yet, the double-play combo of rookies Luis Rivera and Johnny Paredes will start for the first time. The return of Floyd Youmans from the Jacksonville minor league club will certainly help the staff. Too bad the Mets are in their division. Best player: Raines...
Spring training has never been a place for precise memories or exact measurements. The Boston pitcher Roger Clemens and the Montreal outfielder Tim Raines demonstrated again last season that the exercise is essentially a mental one for the fans. After finances kept them from spring training in 1987, Clemens still won 20 games and the Cy Young Award, while Raines hit .330 with a four-for-five debut that included a grand-slam home run. Maybe Florida has forgotten that it is a state of mind...
Such criticism stings O.C.O., which insists that it has simply been trying to find a way to avoid the sea of red ink that Montreal faced after the 1976 Games. Because O.C.O. almost certainly will achieve that, as long as most sponsors believe they will get their money's worth, the Olympic marriage with commercialism will continue. Organizers of this summer's Seoul Olympics have already pulled in $180 million worth of sponsorships...