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...equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns rather than weighty parables. No one can explain the game's appeal, and Kahn insists that "You learn to let some mysteries alone, and when you do you find...
Divorced. George Harrison, 33, shy, mystic Beatle; and Patti Boyd, 32, model and actress, who met George while filming A Hard Day's Night; after eleven years of marriage, two years of separation; in London...
Other historical attractions, including New England's Old Sturbridge Village, Plimouth Plantation and Mystic Seaport, also took a Bicentennial beating. Sturbridge came close to shutting its doors one day a week during the winter months until the National Endowment for the Humanities last month produced a $540,000 three-for-one matching grant. Plimouth Plantation ended last year with an $83,000 deficit, v. a $61,000 profit...
...interplay between horse and rider is complex and ultimately mystic. Unless thrown, a rider cannot finish ahead of his horse, and certain racing sophisticates regard betting jockeys as a prelude to bankruptcy. But now comes Cauthen, apparently able to win races aboard a healthy Chihuahua. Track professionals analyze and shrug...
...team wasn't quite that lucky on Sunday, breezing in fifth at Mystic Lake in a meet that B.U. managed to snatch from the always-powerful host team from Tufts. Despite the efforts of captain Laura Brown, who was low-point skipper in Division B, the team couldn't bring its Larks home to victory...