Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armchair baseball fan, no one's sinecure in life is more enviable than Roger Angell's. From his comfortable niche in The New Yorker's "Sporting Scene" section, Angell turns out three well-crafted essays a year on the goings-on in major league baseball and spends the rest of his time making his rounds--down south for the exhibition season, a couple of mid-season jaunts to check out this year's contenders and non-contenders, and finally, to the playoffs and the World Series...
...guerrillas had been killed and only one Rhodesian-a pilot who was shot down after taking off from the airstrip at Mapai. For its part, Mozambique reported that it shot down three Rhodesian planes and a helicopter, and engaged the Rhodesian forces in "heavy fighting." Minister of Combined Operations Roger Hawkins denied such claims, as well as Mozambique's announcement that a number of Rhodesian troops had been taken prisoner...
...Roger Tory Peterson, L.H.D., ornithologist...
...graduate student, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday Ellery Garage refunded $2 to him only after he contacted an investigator for the Department of Public Utilities. The investigator then called Ellery Garage president Roger Starr and instructed the towing company to refund the money. The investigator, Charles Ivers, confirmed the sequence of events yesterday...
...energetic. The actors, some of them temporary refugees from the movies they are parodying, assume their ever changing roles with suit able off-center fidelity. Special praise should go to Udana Power, who maintains a wide-eyed innocence through more than 50 years of changing features, and to Roger Robinson, whose five parts include both the piano player from Casablanca and Viola, the archetype of all comic maids. As Viola he is transcendentally ridiculous, bustling ever back ward and sounding alarmingly like a zither that is about to lose its strings...