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...That's not a good way to have to beat the Red Sox. But that's how we had to do it today," Oakland manager Tony La Russa said. "I hope that's the last time in this series we have to go through that...
...loitering pitchers have tried it since Washington First Baseman Joe Kuhel attempted one game in 1936, and the modern record for swiveling 90° pivots must have been set by Wee Willie Keeler in 44 games over six seasons at the turn of the century. Manager Tony La Russa's idea is to excuse regular Third Baseman Vance Law from facing the ace righthanders and hope the lefthanded bat of former Gold Glove First Baseman Mike Squires is not offset by a nightmare of swinging bunts. "There is a no man's land halfway between the mound...
...Beer-Fornario, Ruth Gallagher '49, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Andrew M. Hoath '50, and Cynthia Lloyd '50, The program includes Renaissance metots and madrigals, 17th century music for the harp, Bach's Italian Concerto, da Vinci's Fluto Sonata, arias by Mozart, Puccini, Vordi and Donaudy, and a Fantasia Russa for piano composed for this occasion by Jean-Pierre Barricelli...
...swamps and forests hugging Staraya Russa bodies rotted and weapons turned rusty. The town itself lay crushed beneath its stench of death. Here, for two and one half years, the Germans held on: to give up this powerful "hedgehog" was to unhinge the whole northern front...
Last week the Germans blew up their defenses, abandoned Staraya Russa. The reason, boldly scribbled across the map of war: fear of being caught by the fast, steady Russian advance from the north. To the jubilant Russians this was a victory as great as the destruction of the Eighth German Army in the Ukraine (see below), as the break-through at Krivoi Rog. This week they looked forward to a still greater triumph: capture of Pskov, railroad gateway into the Baltic States. Of the three Red armies driving on the thousand-year-old stronghold, the closest stood only 28 miles...