Word: parked
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KARENA SHIELDS Associate Professor of Anthropology-Sociology University of San Diego Alcala Park, Calif...
...went last week as the Montreal Expos and the St. Louis Cardinals played the first major league baseball game outside the U.S. If the bilingual announcer in Montreal's Jarry Park sounded slightly strange to the American players, it was no less so for the Canadian spectators. Before the game the loudspeakers repeatedly boomed in English and French: "If your seat has not been installed, please be patient...
Trouble was, the $3,000,000 program to increase the seating in the park from 3,000 to 30,000 seats is still not complete, and right up until game time Expo General Manager Jim Fanning and a squad of ushers were frantically setting up 6,000 folding chairs. They should have given one to the catchers. Mired in muck up to their ankles, their position was the sloppiest on a field that had been turned into a lumpy, bumpy pasture by the spring thaw. During the day the pitcher's mound sank by a good five inches. Expo...
...first glance, the locale - an ultramodern motel complex between the Astrodome and Houston's 57-acre amusement park - seemed strangely at odds with the ecclesiastical nature of the discussions. On second glance, it seemed rather appropriate. In both their deliberations and their decisions, more than 210 of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops last week showed more than ever before that they are deeply concerned with the clamor for change within their church...
Although the Techmen got a hit in every inning, they were never able to unleash an extra base drive. Winning southpaw J. C. Nickens lasted six innings and coach Loyal Park sent pitchers Tuckers, Tom DaShiell, and Bob Kalinowski in for one inning each...