Word: sakes
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Essentially, the Yankees won by default this year. The Red Sox and the Orioles were plagued with contract problems and never really got started. And the Royals might have won except for a bad call in the ninth inning of the last game. But for the sake of purity, the Reds must stem the unpure tide from the Bronx. I predict that the series will go no less than four game, nor more than seven. And the Reds are going to win most of the games...
Maybe there's some sort of market for this star-studded blather. But for heaven's sake let Woman's Wear Daily mine it. They do a much better job covering the celebs than More can do anyway. What More should devote itself to is something along the lines of its original creation, something in the spirit of A.J. Liebling's writings on the press. Liebling dealt in matters of substance, giving examples from around the country about what can happen when you have a one-paper town, or how publishers force their biases into print...
...Workers Vanguard reporter Mark Lance that he would be denied credentials to enter the convention hall, explaining that the union could not guarantee his physical safety. Prior to this, union officials had advised five other reporters for left-wing newspapers that they should leave the convention "for your own sake...
...called, was a demanding father and an avowed segregationist, but he was also noted for his generosity in giving money and gifts to local blacks. (One thing the gregarious Mr. Earl was not able to teach Jimmy, however, was to relax and have fun for its own sake.) While Mr. Earl did not read books or allow blacks beyond his back door, Miss Lillian, his wife, compensated on both counts. She taught Jimmy to respect the rights of blacks, and beyond that to be concerned about them. She also encouraged him to read voraciously-as did Miss Julia Coleman, superintendent...
...front-line presidents recognize that Kissinger is willing to sacrifice the marginal Rhodesia for the sake of consolidating the much more critical position of South Africa. But they also realize that it is possible at this point to gain a great deal for blacks in Rhodesia and Namibia by negotiation, while the situation within South Africa is considerably less hopeful for the moment. And despite the conservative expectations of Kissinger and Vorster's strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid...