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...Stanford, good students and a History and Literature program that he likes greatly at Harvard. Some of those who took History 150b this term recall the lecturer as a figure swaying gently back and forth at the podium, obviously, amusedly and earnestly interested in ideas for their own sake...
...even more. In an era which has seen a growing trend toward specialization and an orgiastic over-emphasis on the homerun, Kaline is one of the few who can do everything brilliantly, one of the few genuinely exciting players in baseball. He has come back before. For baseball's sake we can only hope he will again...
...duffer's delight: when his putts hang on the lip and his drives stray, Palmer bangs his clubs against the turf, twists his face into a grimace of pain, mutters angrily: "Stop hitting like a woman!" or "Head down, head down, for God's sake!" It is at the crucial moments, when most golfers get rattled and come unstrung, that Palmer plays his best golf. "When I have a feeling that I might lose, it charges me up," he says. "It gives me added incentive. I just tell myself to try harder. It's a little like...
...Sake...
Everywhere he went, his tune was the same: "I want to try to change things, to use whatever influence I have for welfare, peace and the brotherhood of man." Everywhere he was on his best behavior. In Japan, he ignored geisha comforts for the sake of solemn discussions of international politics. In Israel, he drank honeyed tea, spent evenings visiting kibbutz farmers, mornings sunning himself in the private glory of red pajamas...