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...Blue Hens pushed around their only run during a steady drizzle in the third inning. Fleet-footed centerfielder Gary Gehman barely beat out an infield single, stole second and third, and came home when Crimson catcher Chuck Marshall's peg skipped past Rick Pearce into left field...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Ousted From NCAA Baseball Tourney | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...dish, and visited his old stomping grounds at the gas station. Time and Newsweek featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed their frenetic ignorance. They could not peg Fidrych. He seemed content to sit up in his apartment, with an old stereo and a generous supply of Coors beer, nonplussed by the publicity. Soon the sportscasters' favorite line (crooned by the likes of Howard Cosell) implied that Fidrych had a few screws loose upstairs--that...

Author: By Chris Agee, | Title: A Bird From The Bush | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...first. It is continuation of the same sounds, assembled in shorter cuts, perhaps for the benefit of the air waves. "I Got The News" uses graceful vocal harmony and some fine guitar leads with the album's usual set of jazz instruments to weave a fluent, atriking cut. "Peg" is that cute tune to which all the top-fortyettes will bump. Peg," despite its true quality, approaches the barrier between easy-listening-jazz and disco. The "Disco Dan" concept puts a damper on the album, raising doubts as to whether or not this band will in fact "die behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Something Old, Something New | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

...treaty), exchanges on key points have taken place in Washington, with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin as the intermediary. (Some U.S. officials regard Dobrynin, who has been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon as a conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: SALT: Toward a Breakthrough | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Radcliffe captain Sarah Robinson ran her personal best race, to finish in fifth place at 19:45. Maureen Devlin, Diane Jacobson, Wendy Karle and Maria D'Innocenza surrounded the other Rhody Ram, Peg Dillon, in seventh place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe X-Country Tramples Rhody: Sullivan Runs Wild | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

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