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With one out in that disastrous eighth, Shane St. Clair reached first on a scratch single that trickled past third baseman Fran Cronin. Ken Zend then drilled Holt's third pitch over the left field fence on one hop for a ground rule double, St. Clair going to third on the play...
...family and several more volunteers are waiting their turn. "A lot of guys think they're going to be with someone who'll cut their throats," says Patrolman Mike Robitzer, the first cop to live in. He emerged from his threeday, two-night stint without a scratch. Joining an eleven-member family with a father on welfare, he experienced a degree of culture shock. He shared a drafty enclosed patio with a teen-age son. For his first breakfast he was offered "eggs and orange juice." He happily accepted until he noticed that the raw eggs were...
...believe that Miss Kuhlman and many other faith healers are consciously dishonest. But he has no use for the psychic surgeons who "operate" in the Philippines, often on desperate patients who have spent plenty of money to get there. He watched several of these sleight-of-hand artists scratch their patients with deftly concealed mica flecks to give the impression that they had made incisions by sheer psychic energy. Nolen also discovered that the healers simulated blood with betel-nut juice, and quickly disposed of all tissues supposedly removed during their operations to prevent laboratory analysis...
...believes that the very fact that there are so few Indians here now gives Harvard the chance to develop a really good Indian program eventually. "You can start from scratch," he says. "People are more open to ideas here. Back home, you've got a lot of rednecks who think they already know everything about Indians...
...palaces and tombs and temples are mostly museums now, and they draw big crowds. They may not be quite as big as the Sunday busloads at the Great Wall, where fathers carry picnic baskets and tired babies up the high steps and people scratch their names and provinces like American graffiti. But they're big enough. And there are usually people to answer visitors' questions, even if it's only with a "Buddhism! We don't understand it." Students closed down some of the palaces during the Cultural Revolution, but it seems as though visual arts aren't thought...