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...that give the game color. In the interest of speeding things up, no longer may a pitcher stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will a reliever trudge in from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher by demanding that the umpire examine the ball. What's left to relieve the boredom? The seventh-inning stretch...
...stands firmly beneath the fierce red light, tip-toes up to reach the high notes. Perspiration streams down his face. Suddenly he drops into the famous Chuck Berry walk. Knees spread, guitar slung at his ankles, he hops across the stage on his right leg--left leg flailing, head bobbing. The audience that wouldn't be caught dead with his records roars in his face...
...operate where the Viet Cong haven't been bothered before," explains McMahon. "They don't dare sleep in their houses any more. They sleep in the fields." His favorite story is of the Viet Cong who came back to his hut at dawn with his rifle slung over his back, whistling at the mischief he had done that night, only to find a reception committee of Prews waiting...
...their lives which would do their parents proud," observed Paul Potter, a past SDS president, and Hal Benenson, of the Harvard chapter, in a recent paper on the "critical radical perspective." Despite the radical rhetoric and slogans, "there is very little comprehension of what the words that are slung around mean either as descriptions of the society or as prescriptions for action." Most SDSers, they observed, still accept the notion that "getting a majority of people to vote for something creates a force for change"; that the United States will criminate poverty without radically changing, and that the country cannot...
...treatment usually accorded her father. In Viet Nam, where she recently toured, 37 outfits generously named her their No. 1 pinup girl. She is currently negotiating a contract with the Pontiac people, who think that her trim chassis is just the right image for their new line of low-slung chariots. Even Daddy is getting into the act: his duet with Nancy on a single called Somethin' Stupid was No. 1 on the bestseller charts last week...