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Fall in Cambridge means Ivy League football. First of all, don't sneer. You may have heard (if you care at all about these matters) that Ivy League football is the preoccupation of 135-pound weaklings who would like nothing better than to get back to their physics homework. But while it ain't the Big 10, football among the Ivies can be every bit as exciting and almost as well-played. The rivalries are ancient (they don't call it The Game for nothing), the scores close, and the level of play generally impressive...
With only ten days to get ready for the second-season opener, hitters may have a slight edge over pitchers, who must be in top physical condition to perform effectively. But the batters are not exactly ready to pound on the poor pitchers. Says Detroit Tigers Leftfielder Steve Kemp: "Hitting is a precision thing. No matter what anybody did during the strike, it's still going to take time to get back and start hitting the ball...
Although out-of-towners have recently filled the stands, most in attendance are colorful, local regulars, like 504-pound Toledoan "Tiny," who never misses a Mud Hen game, but doesn't do "a whole helluva lot else," according to one official...
...Jack is bound to wind up falling all over himself every time he tries to fetch a pail of water. In truth, the world's literary and theatrical output, from high drama to nursery rhymes, is as violent and vice-ridden as yesterday's news. Poet Ezra Pound may have had something of the sort in mind when he said: "Literature is news that stays news...
...tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy targets; and even an Air Force flashlight so electronically sophisticated that almost every pilot bypasses it for $1.50 Japanese models that have the advantage of fitting inside their flight suits. Again and again his examples pound home points that make common sense--it's better to have many more relatively cheap fighter planes than a handful of super-sophisticated models that spend most of their time on the ground for repairs. And he scoffs at that American god, technology, Cheaper weapons, he says, tend to be more...