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...night before the Harvard opener, the Wichita Aeros, the Expos AAA team, kicked off their season against the Oklahoma City Phillies. Integral to the Expos 8-2 win was the performance of starting leltifielder Mike Stenhouse, who singled once, walked twice, stole a base and scored two runs. Most baseball fans may recognize him as son of Dave Stenhouse, pitcher for the Senators, but Harvard fans remember him based on his own accomplishment as the curator of several Crimson batting records--most doubles in a season, most triples in a season and in a career: most...
...additional $299 million so far this year. Says Don Goodrich, who hopes to sell his Harvester dealership in Gilmore City, Iowa: "You'll see a lot more dealers trying to get out unless there's a turn-around soon." Adds Lloyd Long, a John Deere dealer in Oklahoma: "Reagan tells us to tighten our belts, but this is turning into a tourniquet...
...newly mild presidential response were on display last week, when Reagan visited Manhattan to receive a gold medal from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for "courageous leadership in governmental, civic and humanitarian affairs." In contrast to the friendly demonstrations that had greeted the President in Oklahoma only the week before, thousands of outraged protesters outside the New York Hilton Hotel broke into chants of "Money for jobs, not for war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" Ten blocks away, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, 300 people, including a few members of the N.C.C.J. who opposed honoring...
...interview with the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, the President continued his recent criticism of the way the American press and television have been covering his Administration. Previously he had spoken to TV Guide of a "kind of editorial slant" in TV reporting of El Salvador that "challenges what we are doing there." In Oklahoma City, Reagan charged that the press and TV are exaggerating the effects of the current recession. "Is it news," he demanded, with a flash of anger, "that some fellow out in South Succotash* has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide...
...with a vastly reduced deficit. House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed a Camp David meeting of Administration and congressional leaders of both parties, at which a bipartisan budget could be worked out. The simplest but also the most provocative proposal was offered by Democratic Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, chairman of the House Budget Committee: Why not just put the President's budget to a vote on the House floor...