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...funhouse they call home. To be sure, Houston's two-year-old Astrodome is a chamber of horrors for rival ballplayers. Owner Roy Hofheinz's $31.6 million Xanadu has an outfield with the consistency of cobblestones; the infield is a bright green Chemstrand rug that ricochets grounders into the outfield like .30 cal. bullets...
Green Stealer. Many of them are still as green as their infield rug, but they have lots of time for growing. The team's average age is 23.8 years. All-Star Second Baseman Joe Morgan, 22, whom the Astros plucked three years ago from California's Oakland City College, was hitting .315 until last week, when a batting-practice liner crunched into his right kneecap, putting him out for three weeks. With Rookie Shortstop Sonny Jackson, 21, a .296 hitter who fields like a jackrabbit and steals bases on the side (24 this year), the Astros have...
...second half of the picture the mood changes from tangy to sour. The fun's over, even though the director won't admit it. Society begins to marinate Morgan. People stop oogling the cute little animal and get worried he'll make on the living room rug...
Mecom then moved to take over what he supposed were his new properties. At the Chronicle, he had an office carpeted for himself in "Mecom blue," his favorite color. He was also elected chairman and chief executive officer at the bank and had a Mecom-blue rug put down in the lobby. He seemed ready to get into the newspaper business in a big way, threw a huge party for the entire staff at his home. Used to the penuriousrress of the Endowment, Chroniclers came away awed by visions of the future. But Mecom, who boasts some $500 million...
...considerable skills as a saxophonist and composer; one of his tunes, Blue Night, made the Broad way scene in Mike Todd's 1950 production Peep Show. The royal couple had four children, three girls and a boy, Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is now studying in England, prepping for Rug by school and kingship as Rama X. And like his ancestors, Bhumibol in the tenth year of his reign shaved his head, retired briefly to a monastery, and went out at dawn's light to beg for his food...