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Hoping to equal last year's performance will be junior south-paw Tom Hurley, whose 2.63 ERA is tops among returning pitchers. Other pitchers expected to contribute are last year's save leader junior Peter Rau and classmate Tom Baxter, along with sophomores Tony Lancette, Ray Desrocher, John Donahue and freshman Jeff Mitchell...
...after 2 1/2-year-old Mitchell was left in their care, Shirley and Charles Gates of West Waynesville, N.C., reluctantly set aside their plans to buy a camper and spend their retirement hunting and fishing. "When we first got the baby," says Shirley, "it was really hard on me and Paw-paw." They remain angry at their daughter, who, Shirley says, pays no support and rarely visits. But the Gateses have found their grandson a constant joy and challenge. "It's been worth it," says Shirley, "because Mitchell needed us." The senior Gateses can no longer imagine life without...
...concentrating its fury on one miscreant, the U.S. has sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where...
...protection society arranged adoption by the Ahrndt family of Hannover. Alas, the German shepherd has turned out to be a pussycat. Instead of guarding against intruders, she welcomes anyone into the cottage of her owners. A mother as of March, Asta also seems homesick. She has yet to set paw into her master's Ford, but leaped happily into a visitor's East German- made Trabant and expected to be driven away...
...display is divided into nine interculturegeographic areas, said Brown. In the Northwestarea stand totem poles and a largeyellow-and-brown exterior house post carved tolook like a tree. A wooden bear perches near thetop and paw prints trace its path up from theground...