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Teenage fathers are usually bewildered by the news of the impending arrival. Their own fathers, statistics show, were often phantom parents, and the young men have very little idea of what a father is supposed to do. Notes Debra Klinman, project director of the Bank Street College study of teenage parents: "A lot of fathers want to love their babies and do the right thing for them, but they don't see how to do what is right...
...played best at 182 lbs., he did not intend to be 181 or 183. Unitas still marvels at the diving catches Berry insisted on rehearsing without much concern for the skin on his elbows and knees. When no passer was handy, Berry's habit was to run phantom patterns over and over, pausing now and then to consult the file of index cards he kept with him on the sidelines in a cigar...
Walking down the corridors, he describes the phantom occupants of each room. He knows the GSE staff by face and by name, since they often work after hours...
HOSPITALIZED. George Wallace, 65, Democratic Governor of Alabama; for special surgery to relieve some of the "phantom pain" he has suffered ("It hurts in areas where I'm supposed to be dead," he says) since the 1972 assassination attempt that left him a paraplegic; in Englewood, Colo. Wallace reported that he felt less pain in his legs after the operation, which involved opening the spinal column and inserting 80 electrodes to deaden nerves...
...couple of weeks into the team’s phantom season—the part of the schedule played thousands of miles from Cambridge when O’Donnell Field is still blanketed in snow—Zak Farkes sits in street clothes and looks every bit the ball player he’s always been, plus a few extra pounds of muscle...