Word: rom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rom, the Space Knight Parker Bros. Beverly, Mass...
...Rom is a spaceman doll whose computer memory gives it a disappointingly narrow range of behavior. It breathes heavily (one of its better effects), buzzes, twitters and flashes its lighted eyes, and sounds ominous gongs, one for good and two for evil. The trouble with this Parker Bros, homunculus is that it looks as if it should be able to use its arms and legs like a true robot, and it can't. Rom will end up among the dust balls under the playroom sofa...
...feel your vibes." Arnaldo Salinas, 18, another ghetto child, wants to be an FBI man. "There's not so many Puerto Ricans in the FBI, I think," he says, with a grin gleaming from under a straggly mustache. Carlos Lopez, another Puerto Rican, has just graduated rom Cardinal Hayes High School, where he was president of the computer club and editor of the school paper. He has just been admitted to M.I.T. His father is a janitor in a New York hospital...
...Field PENN AB R H BI Cicatiello, cf 5 2 4 2 Karbach, 3b 5 1 1 2 Olszak, rf 5 1 1 1 Gaskill, If, 1b 3 1 0 0 Derle, 1b 5 0 3 0 Yotts, pr 0 0 0 0 Tannish, If 0 0 0 0 Rom, dh 4 1 2 0 Keefer, ss 5 1 2 1 Sinnegan, c 4 1 1 0 Criscuolo, 2b 4 1 1 3 Totals 40 9 15 9 HARVARD Kelley, 2b 4 2 0 0 Marshall, If-c 4 2 2 2 Stenhouse, rf 2 3 1 0 Bingham...
...Novelist James Carroll shapes it Brady wages his war against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as hero and cherished aide to the historical patriot Michael Collins, whose negotiating team he accompanies to England. But the resulting treaty triggers civil war at home, and Brady's family, save for infant Micko, is wiped out. Bitterly, Colman and son embark for America...