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...creator of such enduring and endearing baseball images as the Brooklyn Dodger Bum, the eye-patched Pittsburgh Pirate, the beer-bellied Milwaukee Brave and the slew-footed New York Giant has been without a regular outlet for his art since the World Journal Tribune expired in 1967. Now 68 and with more than 10,000 cartoons to his credit in a 44-year career, the breezy, booze-loving Mullin is disappearing by inches, like a bottle of the finest Scotch whisky...
According to Dement, sleep researchers have found that the pills (which are usually barbiturates) interfere with those dream periods that normally occur about every 90 minutes and are accompanied by rapid eye movements. Denied their normal outlet, such REM dreams are suppressed, only to come back later with tremendous psychological force. As a result, says Dement, "the person has nightmares, is overly intense and displays excitability...
Despite these signals of diminished tensions, however, all is far from well between the two. For the past six months, in Chinese-language broadcasts over Radio Moscow and "Radio Peace and Progress," the Soviet propaganda outlet for the Far East, Russia has relentlessly attacked the Maoist regime for everything from its Viet Nam policy to its intellectual rigor mortis. Two weeks before the river protocol was signed, Radio Moscow attacked Peking for "cutting down relations with socialist countries while broadening contacts with imperialist countries." What apparently bothered Moscow most was the fact that China's trade with its former...
...consumer goods that would help check inflation and finance public health and housing programs. The government also has in the works a program of tax reform that would eliminate overlapping taxes, and a law that would allow domestic mutual funds to open in Italy, thus providing a local outlet for investors...
When Jack Johnson emerged from the black boxing circuit in 1910 to fight Tommy Burns for the heavyweight title, it was only twenty years after the general acceptance of Queensbury rules: the sport was still developing out of its rudimentary stages, and remained a popular outlet for urban athletes from overcrowded slums. Although American championship circles were predominantly WASPish or Irish Catholic, there were many amateur clubs where local heroes could box for fun, a prize, or a small purse, and an entire corps of talented black boxers (forced to fight mainly amongst themselves due to ring economics). Sam Langford...