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...Tony Armas went lame. Reaching for a Grich liner just below the top of the fence in the sixth, Henderson unwittingly boosted it over the wall to give California a one-run lead that became three by the ninth. Twenty-five-year Manager Gene Mauch, 60, the longest and saddest presider in the game, appeared to be on the brink of a smile. "My emotions have calluses on them," he said, "this...
...Nixon thought her husband should burn the Watergate tapes, Julie reports. Her mother was so upset by the scandalous disclosures that she stopped reading the newspapers, and she believed to the end that Nixon had done nothing to require a pardon. For her the pardon was "the saddest day of my life...
...saddest, and also the most ominous, majority gripe is the implicit assumption that a combination of increased social spending and voluntary social service will successfully address America's domestic problems. This may indeed prove to be the case; but if it's not, a widespread reluctance to chip in with time rather than money could prove disastrous for the United States. We observe many examples in the world today of nations tearing themselves up from within because various groups feel hopelessly alienated from and/or oppressed by others. Americans cannot feel smugly insulated from such strains; national service could...
Welles was 70 last May, so it is probably time for people to stop calling him an aging boy wonder and recognize that his is one of the saddest stories of success and failure in American life. Sad because such enormous promise has remained so unfulfilled for so long. Welles was 16 when he talked his way into his first starring role at Dublin's Gate Theater; 18 when he toured the U.S. as Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became...
...season, NBC introduced nine series, all of which were canceled. Worse, most of the shows were about as sophisticated as a mud- trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling...