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...Fenway throughout the 1975 season, but never such an elegant one as this. During the tense pennant drive, faithful, supportive crowds had come to cheer, fans who cared but didn't take themselves too seriously, good-natured, relaxed rooters. Beer-drinking bleacher sitters; dope-smoking ex-Mets fans; Cub Scout packs from Nashua, New Hampshire; families up from Providence in overloaded Country Squires. A fair mixture of ages and ethnicities had come to Fenway during the summer...
...fluent in five languages and conversant in two others. After a brief period of squiring Italy's high-living Princess Maria Gabriella, he settled down at 24 with a bride more suitable to his naturally subdued and by now almost melancholy temperament: Princess Sophia of Greece, a Girl Scout chief captain, amateur archaeologist and pediatric nurse. With their three children-Elena, 11, Cristina, 10, and Felipe, 7-the royal couple now live at state expense in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace, a modern residence surrounded by formal flower gardens and well protected by police...
Considering that one Series site was Boston's venerable Fenway Park, the kind of irregular and intimate bandbox where baseball got its start, the return to basics was appropriate. Advance scouts for both clubs, who had been observing the opposition teams since July, reported few weaknesses. The Reds were stacked with powerful hitters, high-octane speed, superb defense and one of the best bullpens in the game. The Red Sox entered the Series with equally potent hitting, nearly flawless defense and a pitcher named Luis Tiant. The Cuban righthander, who claims to be 34 but is widely believed...
...against cooperating with the Soviets have hurt the President some on the other flank. "Where are we going?" the people asked. Too many vetoes, said some. No focus for the future. A few were uneasy over Ford's old-fashioned talk-too naive, too much like a Boy Scout. His friendship with business and the military establishment has brought up old doubts among traditional liberals who had remained silent for months in their relief at being rid of Nixon. For many Americans, the fact that they did not have to cast a ballot, and thus make a commitment...
Then an acquaintance suggested that Leventhal try a nearby field that was lying fallow. After bicycling to the site, Leventhal began to sweep the area with his detector. Soon the beep-beep in his earphones changed to a wail. Leventhal unsheathed his 8-in. scout knife, dug through the dry soil and unearthed a peculiarly shaped cylinder that he thought was just "another sewer pipe." Then the detector sounded off for another hit. More knife digging, and Leventhal was suddenly staring at what seemed to be curls on the back of a bronze head. He dug out the head, wrapped...