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...Pitching Ace Tom Seaver cadged $2 each from a pickup team of ballplayers to buy baseballs for early-March makeshift practice sessions. Like a youthful playground gang, a group of Oakland A's slipped through a hole in the fence of their sealed ballpark in Mesa, Ariz., to sneak in a little illegal batting practice...
...because traditionally women are not allowed to eat in public. Unfortunately there is no place to hide on the bus, the journey is long, and the novelty of a box lunch is tempting. Some of the real stoics hold out, but most women break hastily into their provisions and sneak bits of food underneath their veils when they think nobody is looking...
Doonesbury 's author acknowledges his predecessors with equal alacrity. He has been known to sneak a caricature of Snoopy into his early works, and Li'I Abner's creator says Trudeau once ran up to him and gushed, "I've just been introduced as the young Al Capp. Gee, that was the greatest compliment I ever...
...demanding life," she says, recalling her days as the Vice President's wife. "All those guest lists and functions and parties. Lady Bird and I used to sneak off and bowl together before some of those parties...
Perhaps the most unpleasant discovery that a fellow of the Institute of Politics makes about Harvard is that the University is crawling with more politicians--and teeming with more political plots and counterplots--than Washington at its worst. Grubby little schemers sneak and slander to secure tenure for themselves or deprive someone else of it; otherwise normal adults spend long hours trying to squeeze a few more dishonorable dollars out of a grant program to funnel into pet projects; academic wives, a generally bright and attractive strain of the breed, engage in childish games of status and snubbing that would...