Word: shoelessness
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...latest shoeless wonder is Briton Zola Budd, who sprints along, setting records wearing nothing but her bare peds...
Pardoning Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for their ongoing gambling connections, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth was as munificent last week as a tax man forgiving the debts of Joe Louis. "The world changes," Ueberroth explained, leaving admirers of Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe Jackson to wonder if those Chicago miscreants of 1919 had merely been born too soon. (Say it ain't so, Joe Pepitone.) "I don't think," Ueberroth continued, "that we can start dictating who you can play golf with." So baseball is open again to shills...
...month, Brazilians have been shocked by reports from the drought-stricken Northeast of starving families eating snakes, lizards and rats. "I have never seen the likes of this in my life," said Pontes Neto, a Red Cross official. "The children all have the same sickness, worms and chronic hunger." Shoeless looters roaming city streets have panicked retailers. All last week, heavy looting took place in Rio de Janeiro suburbs. In one wild afternoon, a mob of 400 sacked four grocery stores in the area, ripping down steel gratings and smashing windows. Says Security Guard Anzio Gomes Monteiro: "They seemed crazed...
...scene from Damn Yankees, Kittle played Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo., hitting so many batting-practice homers that witnesses now insist the hits were all homers and five of them landed in the upper deck. He was packed off smartly to the minor leagues. The only question: Why had Kittle hit so poorly in the Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle...
...shoeless Ambassador reclines on a chaise longue that is covered with classified cables. In a Churchillian pose, he holds a thick cigar in one hand and shoos away his old English sheep dog, Wellington, with the other. Deane Hinton then offers TIME'S Timothy Loughran some frank views on his two-year stint as envoy to El Salvador and the aims of U.S. policy there...