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...famous: there were the six remaining original 1925 Giants--one of whom is, somewhat disconcertingly, currently confined to a wheelchair. Then there were the '56 Giants--Katcavage, Gifford, Rote, Grier, Connerly--still on their feet and looking like they could still put on the ol' uniforms in a pinch...
...eighth, the Red Sox staged a desperation comeback. With two on and two out, pinch hitter Bernie Carbo strode to the plate and, well, you know the rest of the story. With two strikes and more than a few tons of pressure on him. Carbo drove a Rawly Eastwick fastball deep into the center-field bleachers, tying the game. The unlikely Fenway crescendo had exploded again...
...fell apart over the summer, whatever was left. You still had a few things around that you could fall back on in a pinch--a few concerts, local starving artists in the street, you know. The cult guys are still around, sure. But they're all into it now, too. It's got the makings of an international conspiracy. It's the lowest musical common denominator since the bongo drum; Sonny and Cher, Hall and Oates, Stiller and Meara, Leopold and Loeb, local starving artists in the street, they're all into it. Hendrix and Joplin are releasing posthumous albums...
...recently as a generation ago, a job for a woman was unthinkable in most upper-and middle-class Southern white homes. Today, with urbanization, feminism, television and sheer economic pinch all playing a part, it is routine. Lynn McColl, 38, of Winston-Salem, became a schoolteacher when financial misfortune struck her family in the late '60s. "Now it's not essential that I work -except to me," she says. "My husband is very supportive. He is just a prince of a man." More and more, Southern women work as telephone linemen, ministers, welders, lawyers and executives. Barriers...
...fine and courtly conspiracy in motion, full of nuances and restraints and insights into character, as well as hard shots and action. "Mixed doubles," says John McPhee, author of Levels of the Game, the best book on tense, competitive tennis yet written, "has to be played with a pinch of forbearance. It doesn't have much to do with winning. It's more like a fleshly version of that other rarity, a civilized conversation between four friends...