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...devoting more time to the birdbrains in my comic strip Shoe. I would like to devote less time to the birdbrains on the national and international stages." So said Jeff MacNelly, 33, last week as he announced that he was giving up regular political cartooning. From his editorial-page perch at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, MacNelly had drawn and quartered Washington wildlife through eleven years and four Administrations. His winsome wit and goofily graceful draftsmanship had won him two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine...
...intensive care unit, given a blood transfusion and taken to the ninth-floor surgical clinic. As he was being moved into surgery, the Pope, fully conscious, posed to a male nurse the question that recurs with such dreadful frequency amid the mindless violence that grips the world: "Perchè l'hanno fatto [Why did they do it]?" John Paul was not hinting that he had seen more than one would-be assassin but simply wondering at the madness of them...
Apparently, Nahigian saw things the same way, because he bolted from his perch in the visitors dugout to jaw it out with Chicarelli. The conversation continued until the arbiter bounced Nahigian, making Wark manager and Chuck Marshall acting manager while Wark caught...
...some of his predecessors at Defense, he has none of the arrogance or aloofness that so often offends Congress. Says one Capitol Hill aide: "It's awfully nice not to have a Secretary of Defense who puffs on a pipe and talks down at you from an intellectual perch." A senior military official at the Pentagon agrees: "Weinberger is the first good politician we have had on the third floor for quite a while...
...timeless images that defined Harvard basketball this season, Bok bounded out of his perch in the top row of the bleechers, ran out onto the court, and embraced Mannix...