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First of all, the ugly fat guy in the bullpen is back. Sporting a new mustache, Rich Gossage is once again catapulting 95 mph golf balls toward home plate. The only worry is that the Goose might trip and fall as he lumbers eagerly to the mound. George Steinbrenner has already built Gossage his own padded shower room and is considering strapping the playful monster into a 400-ft. baby harness to preserve his health and impeccable record...
...front means more than politics though. Easyriders is honest about every controversial topic--sex, 130 mph motorized tricycles, farting and even death. A member of the staff, Ken Stambaugh, was killed in a motorcycle accident a few days before publication, and Easyriders' lead columnist, Spider, eulogized him in this fashion: "I didn't get to know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin...
...responds. Small bands block traffic for about an hour until police decide they've watched long enough. A cooperative motorist follows a vanguard of cops as they push and club through the crowd. What the officers start the driver finishes, driving through the last clump of blockaders at 15 mph with a half-dozen screaming protesters clinging to his hood...
...crowd surges to the fence surrounding the Common to see John Paul, and they are not disappointed. The two-second flash of his profile, beaming under a wide-brimmed hat as he rolls by at 25 mph, is enough to introduce him to his following. But, minutes later, speaking from behind the altar into the driving rainstorm, his "program of faith" wins his audience forever...
...winter storm watch is in effect today, with snow changing to rain likely. The National Weather Service predicted a 100 per cent chance of precipitation, accompanied by 40 mph winds...