Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankees "can field the most devastating starting nine in baseball but have few reserves to call upon when trouble strikes" [Oct. 23]. I'm sure Brian Doyle, Paul Blair and Jim Spencer-as well as the rest of the Yankee bench -would be pleased to know that they are considered scrubs...
...extraordinary nocturnal sentry duty by Galante's bodyguards demonstrates both the Mafia's remarkable influence inside U.S. prisons and the fact that there is no rest for a mobster who strives to become godfather and fails. Sooner or later a rival will try to put him out of the running, permanently...
...bringing the total to more than 2,700 over the past two months. Many of the former inmates immediately went to newspapers with grim tales of the tortures to which they had been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim's screams reverberate inside his head; and such practices as hanging women...
...launched the 32-page Daily Star (initial circ., 1.25 million). Selling for 6p (roughly 12?), slightly less than the Sun and the Mirror, the Star is being printed on underused Express presses in Manchester and distributed only in the North and the Midlands for the moment. Penetration of the rest of England is planned for the spring. Says Star Editor in Chief Derek Jameson: "We've got to punch a hole in the Sun and Mirror market...
...getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries. Today a good many Americans would applaud the exasperation confessed by John Nevin, chairman of Zenith Corp., in the latest Harvard Business Review. Says he: "The question is whether Japan is going to open up or the rest of the world is going to shut down Japan...