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...memoir 22 years after his death in Mexico at the age of 42. That he survives Carolyn Cassady's recollections with some of the legend intact suggests not only that a successful con man sells what people want to buy but also that he must believe in the pitch himself. For the author, who was an adventuresome graduate of Bennington when she met Cassady in 1947, this meant that life could be more exciting than settling down with a guy named Bill. With a guy named Neal she got both excitement and domestic drudgery. The title, Off the Road, refers...
Finally, a team official who had heard of my plight offered to let me use the team's direct line. The phone was in a pitch-black lockerroom. I could barely make out a piece of masking tape reading "Lynn Calls Only." Somehow, my story went through. Just five minutes over deadline. Just one minute before I was kicked out of the clubhouse...
Even on relatively slow news days, the front-page headlines of Manila's 23 daily newspapers scream of worsening terrorism, new coup threats, prolonged power brownouts, mounting protests against U.S. military bases. Last week they were shrieking at a fever pitch. The U.S. Government had discovered that a Peace Corps volunteer working on the island of Negros had been kidnaped in June by communist insurgents; just days earlier, officials in Manila had denied that such Americans were at risk and had lambasted Washington for suspending the Philippines' Peace Corps program. Then came the even more riveting news that...
...concept in 1978. It took a plea last fall by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, who had been a Senator when F.D.R. was President, to get a $5.8 million appropriation | passed to begin the $47 million project. Terminally ill with cancer, Pepper got out of bed to make his pitch in his last public appearance before he died...
Nineteen-seventy-eight. What an appropriate year to become a Red Sox fan. Fourteen and a half games ahead of the dreaded Yankees in July, deadlocked on October 2. And after weakling Bucky Dent belted a Mike Torrez pitch over the Green Monster, the '78 Sox were history...