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...Crimson's Mark Cooley returned from a brief retirement to shore up the team's defenses in the 190-lb. division. The tank-like junior wasted no time at all on the Terriers' Scott Greenbaum, pinning him in just 59 seconds...
Stirred out of his midday snooze, the large hippopotamus emerged from the crocodile-infested waters and lumbered onto the lake shore, leaving giant footprints in the mud. Soon a small, upright figure appeared. Perhaps looking for prey, he carefully trod among the wading birds and other fauna, crossing the trail of large prints along the shore...
Moviegoers have yet to see the full range of Streep's art. She is an expert mimic (she copied her dead-on Southern accent in Joe Tynan from Dinah Shore) and can turn a hilarious pratfall. Her film roles have mainly been those of vulnerable modern women. She has not yet played a period character from a position of strength, but plans to start work on the screen version of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman early next spring...
...mass mortalities of fish." The Government maintains that the leases cover no spawning grounds on Georges Bank, and that the prevailing currents could easily sweep an oil slick to sea. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus notes that of 292 million bbl. of oil produced last year from off-shore U.S. wells, only two spills exceeded 50 bbl., the largest losing only 135 bbl. Besides, the oil revenues that could be realized even from a small reserve at Georges Bank are hard to turn down. Two decades of fishing might be worth $3.3 billion. Two decades of oil should earn...
...fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded...