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...outfielder Rick Miller and catcher Tim Blackwell engaged in a fierce game of hockey. Miller used the handle of a bat and shot a baseball forcing Blackwell to make some spectacular kick saves as well as a few tremendous diving saves. Blackwell also made good use of a rusty nail, poking his opponent to keep him out of the crease...
...opposition. He has also hindered the development of a dissatisfied ultra-conservative white faction by the strategy of repeatedly making incomplete concessions to the black population and then refusing to honor the agreements. One of Smith's former political opponents complains that "dealing with Smith is like trying to nail a jelly to the wall...
Carter suffers among some blacks for the same reason he does among some whites: accusations that he is vague on issues. "You can't nail him down," complains Clarence Burns, a Baltimore city councilman. "What is he going to do about unemployment?" (Carter has refused to support the Humphrey-Hawkins bill that would require the Government to reduce unemployment to less than 3%, but he vows an all-out attack on unemployment.) Still, as Burns concedes, "there's something about him that appeals to black people...
...Suddenly I heard a 'pang.' The guy I was playing with said it went off the green," recalls the one handicapper from Las Palmas, Spain. "It had landed in the hole on the fly." Vik went on to nail down second place in the Norwegian Open and was also the runner up in the Spanish Open...
Onstage the sounds of the strike are deafening. People work fast, unscrewing lights, taking out wires, ripping up tapes and hammering out every nail to save wood for future productions. Most of the people striking are crew from Godspell, the next show scheduled in the theater. Maybe that's why they seem so happy to demolish the set. One person on the techie circuit explained he spends every other Saturday striking a set of some sort. "I'm just here to rip it apart," he says. Douglas Hughes is hurrying because he's president of the Premiere Society...