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...pacing and smoking in his office after a one-run victory, "shaking in my boots," he calls it. The Orioles are making their move on the American League's Eastern Division leader, Milwaukee. Jim Palmer, 36, Baltimore's preening pitcher, has won ten straight games. So Palmer is going to outlast Weaver after all. Neither man brooks any opinion but his own, and they have been legendary adversaries. "Every single gray hair I got," says Weaver, 52, "I got from Palmer." Once, when Earl was hopping mad at Palmer, Palmer chose the moment of Weaver's highest...
...more confidence. Watts added a shuffle beat where once there was only a straight eight-count. Richards and Jones tried with two guitars what Chuck Berry did with one, and a new, more powerful sound jumped from their amps. "A definition-in-action of rock and roll," critic Robert Palmer called the double-barrelled guitar attack which remained a Stones trademark even after Jones' death and two generations of replacements...
...products get technologically more complex and sophisticated, companies are finding that 800 numbers provide reassurance that expert advice and counseling will always be available to trouble-shoot a problem. Says Palmer Swanson, general manager of Polaroid Corp.'s customer service division, which successfully pioneered the use of 800 numbers as a device for customer support twelve years ago: "They are a wonderful consumer mechanism, the best! We let the customer know in every way we can that a Polaroid 800-number hot line comes as a service when you buy a Polaroid product...
...retirement from active teaching in 1976, the 78-year old Finley has remained busy at his Tamworth. N.H., home. He recently won a national book award for a new interpretation of Homer's Odyssey. He still plays squash and tennis, which he learned at Harvard from then-national champion Palmer Dixon...
...green plastic covered floors and metal ceilings of the Palmer-Dixon Courts have a nostalgic association for the Class of 1982 already, it's for the fall of their freshman year, when the enormous room hosted the only other extent that requires seating room for an entire class and its parents-the freshman parents' weekend luncheon...