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...thing have returned pretty much to normal, everybody can get excited about the chances of their favorite teams making the playoffs in October. Unfortunately, at least in the American League, thing won't be too interesting. The league, which as long as I can remember has specialized in boring pennant races (with the exception of the Red Sox in '67), won't offer much excitement this year either...
...used to be a Yankee fan when they were winning pennant after pennant in the '50's and early '60's. Everyone I knew hated them with a passion, but I could never understand why. Now, after seeing the Orioles clean up for the past couple of years I think I now: nobody likes a team that always wins...
...symbols as the skidding car, the bicycle and the diagonal slash that means "Don't." In addition, the new signs use a color code: red to prohibit, yellow to warn, green to permit movement, blue for highway services, brown for scenic suggestions. Shapes, too, are being standardized: a pennant for no passing, a circle for railroad crossings, a diamond for potential hazards...
...cameras and using ultraviolet and infra-red sensors to probe the surface and the atmosphere, will never come close enough in its far-ranging 860-mile by 10,600-mile orbit to photograph any life forms. Although the Russians have announced that their Mars 2 lander carried a Soviet pennant to the Martian surface, they have been silent about the performance of any life detectors or other instruments it might have carried...
...played all right. Considered juju (good luck) by the Biafrans, he rode around in a white Mercedes with a death's-head pennant fluttering from its hood. Though a capable military commander, Steiner was regarded by observers as something between a borderline psychopath and a gleeful good Samaritan. To command attention from his troops, he would fire submachine-gun bursts into the ground at their feet...