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...stay in touch with play, during every game Finley either dials the press box and gets Traveling Secretary Jim Bank to feed him the details, or he calls a special number at KEEN radio in San Jose to plug in on the play-by-play broadcast. When he hears something he does not like, he is not shy about demanding an explanation...
...ground by his tub, searching for its plug, his aluminum construction hat glinting in the bulging evening-got-up-in-drag-as-afternoon sky. Ruddy bearded and freckled all over and pale where his clothes would have been, he said the tub would soon be filled. His kids screamed about with the ducks and geese--silently, Peanut, his youngest daughter, tottered out of the outhouse trailing her pants about her ankles. Bridget and Jenny collected rocks. Daniel was happy and we were all a little drunk and the day was bright, never-ending, clear, pleasing us all though damn...
Calling it a night, Peg climbed out, telling Daniel to pull the plug when he was finished. Bridget and he stopped this writhing, uncoiling out of the water like salamanders; slickly limp, warm, shivering. Briggs and Jenny headed up to the Delac where Gay wasn't, Jenny telling Briggs about Gay's black eyes, the bandaged stabs on her arm, the bruises on he chest. And Gay was dying of T.B. and wouldn't go see a doctor and Briggs leaned back against the Delac, its door open and insides all aglow in the depth of nothing, and our odds...
...assumed that Suzette Marie Creppel, 17, would eventually have to undergo open-heart surgery to correct an atrial septal defect-a hole in the wall separating the two upper chambers of her heart. But Drs. Terry King and Noel Mills of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital decided to try to plug the leak with two tiny, round patches-and without surgery...
...upshot is the new declaration of economic independence, "a platform to unite America." If you've got your old high-school American history book around, turn to the Declaration of Independence, change "men" to "People" and plug in "economic" in place of all references to politics: "The History of the present giant corporations is a History of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over those states." What follows is a long indictment of the big corporations for making serfs out of Americans, erecting monopolies that block the native talents...