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...MINNESOTA--The Twins came on strong at the end of last season, but even a fourth batting crown for Rod Carew couldn't save them...
...half-mile in the low 1:50s. When Ryun broke the world record, he made the first half in 1:58.9. With his rocketing initial spurt, Bayi has changed the entire strategy of the mile. "We have to get up and go from the start now," says New Zealander Rod Dixon, who placed third in the 1,500 meters in Munich. Says Bayi modestly: "It's just my style. I'm not trying to psych anyone." Except himself. Last year, when he tried running with the pack, he was so rattled by the traffic that he fell...
...another member of the party, I had retired fishless to the bank for a consoling drink and to wait for Angleton. Finally, he came into view, waist-deep in the icy water and feeling for safe footing among the slippery rocks. He was using a 2¾-oz. Leonard rod and casting with easy grace, the tiny fly landing lightly 80 or 90 ft. below him. He took 1 ½ hours to draw abreast of us, never quitting a run or a pool until he had tested every inch of the surface with one or another of some dozen flies...
...Margaret Thatcher revive Britain 's Conservative Party? Her cure is a brisk dose of Tory principles, laid on smartly with a no-nonsense schoolmistress 's rod. A sampling of the leader's views...
...technique can produce spectacular results. Wendy Clifford, 16, of Minneapolis, literally grew two inches on the operating table as doctors used a Harrington rod to straighten her crooked spine. "I'm glad I had it done," she says. "The doctors told me that by the time I was 30 I would have been completely crippled...