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...system has far more serious implications for the Crimson than merely expanding the team's schedule. Harvard has seven starters returning from last year's team, but the one position where the Crimson lacks a strong returning letterman is on the mound...
...this case, was a towering wall of snow that had torn loose from Switzerland's 11,532-ft. Gelmihorn just before dawn one day last week and roared into a group of buildings near the village of Reckingen. Some 50 sleeping occupants were buried in a 40-ft. mound of snow. The canton's rescue squad rushed to the scene with snow-sounding poles and dogs, but its efforts were hampered by a howling blizzard. The eventual toll: 30 dead, 18 injured, most of them officers of a Swiss army unit that had been practice-shooting...
...pennant, and that he also bet heavily against Detroit in their final, pennant-deciding game of the season with the California Angels. Having already lost two, possibly three pitching turns because of his injured toes, McLain nevertheless came out to start this game. He was bombed off the mound in the third inning after allowing three runs. Detroit lost the game 8-5, and the pennant...
...that text. In his world, the machinery of existence seems to be grinding to a halt. The titles Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame and Malone Dies suggest a civilization with terminal cancer. The suffocating womb becomes a death trap: the urns encasing the characters in Play, the mound of earth piled up to the heroine's neck in Happy Days, the ashcans of Endgame. One critic has called a Beckett hero a perverse Cartesian: I stink, therefore I am. Actually, the degradation and mutilation of the body are Beckett's image for the withering away...
When towering Don Drysdale took the mound, National League batsmen made certain they stayed good and loose at the plate. "I've never thrown deliberately at a batter's head in my life," the 6-ft. 6-in. pitcher once said. What he unquestionably did do was snap off blazing sidearm fastballs and dancing curves with bullwhip fury. In the process, he set a lifetime league record for most hit batsmen (154). This year, the overpowering ace of the Los Angeles Dodger staff proved he had as much guts as the batters who had faced him during...