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Stenhouse (3 for 3 on the day) then went into his one-man wrecking crew act. In the third, after Santos-Buch had been decked by a pitch, he deposited a Bruce Pearson curve about two steps short of the trainer's room at Dillon to make it 3-0. Two innings later he stamped another Pearson bender airmail, this time going with the outside pitch to the opposite field...
...ONE-MAN SHOW, the individual tour de force, has become a major theatrical art form in recent years, and no performer has mastered the genre more completely than James Whitmore. Although Hal Holbrook displayed a keener sense of comic timing in his uproarious portrayal of Samuel Clemens in Mark Twain Tonight, and Julie Harris added a depth of psychological feeling to her Emily Dickinson that Whitmore falls just short of attaining, no one has demonstrated the versatile range and consistent excellence of Whitmore in this type of theater...
...eyes of his admirers, Rafael Ferrer's art has come to represent Puerto Rico, rather as the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez stand for Colombia. Certainly, Ferrer-now 44, and having his latest one-man show at Manhattan's Nancy Hoffman Gallery-has not yet produced his masterpiece, his Hundred Years of Solitude. But if any Latin American artist of his generation is likely...
Every crisis produces its heroes. In Fayette County, Pa., County Commissioner Fred Lebder has become a one-man fuel expediter for the needy. Working out of an old school building, he has established a hot line to distant families who are isolated on impassable rural roads or on unreachable hilltops. He scrounges oil and kerosene from places as distant as Kansas City, then commandeers county vehicles and tank trucks to carry the fuel to destitute homes. Occasionally, he pays for the fuel by personal check...
...one-man show of Henry Kissinger was gone, and U.S. foreign policy was once again a multi-ring spectacle. Vice President Walter Mondale was back from his successful mission of reassurance to Western Europe and Japan. Late in the spring, Jimmy Carter plans to fly to Europe to attend the summit conferences of NATO and the industrialized democracies. In the meantime, the new President was busy sending aides and emissaries off to the corners of the world on diplomatic forays...