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Although the Cardinals give the impression of being a fourth-place team, they do have an upward mobility that neither the Expos nor the Pirates can claim. Although their infield features two names that will be on everybody's trivia quiz--third baseman Kenny Reitz and shortstop Mike Tyson--they are blessed with a few fine Boston refugees, most notably outfielders Reggie Smith and pitchers John Curtis, Lynn McGlothen, Ken Tatum, and Mike Garman. These additions give the Cards a solid outfield (Lou Brock in left, Luiz Melendez in center, and Smith in right) and an equally strong mound corps...
With a barrage of bottles, a slice of pizza and a cup of beer, the Crimson sports cube is pleased to present the first "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" quiz, questions and answers about that ice palace and hardwood haven on Causeway Street, the one and only Boston Garden...
...meeting the next day at which he urged his top aides "to get the story out." That meeting was attended by Nixon, Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean. According to the Senate testimonies of the last four, the President made no attempt at all at that meeting even to quiz them on whether Dean's allegations of their individual involvement in the cover-up were true. No one testified that Nixon had urged that Dean's allegations be reported immediately to the Attorney General or the FBI for investigation...
When these elements are used as tools of comic construction, the results can be splendid parody, as in Cheech & Chong's TV quiz-show takeoff Let's Make a Dope Deal, "where young pushers try to parlay their stash into the reely big connection and move up into dealerhood." Unfortunately, the dope and dirty words too often seem intended to be funny in themselves, giggling passwords to separate "us" from "them...
Died. Dan Golenpaul, 73, impresario who dreamed up the long-lived Information Please radio quiz show in 1938; after a long illness; in Manhattan...