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PROBABLY the only thing to do is stay on the case--buy Dodger pennants from the Souvenir shop across from Fenway Park, call the Globe sports recording at 2 a.m. to get the scores you won't find in the morning paper, and always remember, as the Sox stroke and the Dodgers choke, that baseball is as stupid game of no consequences...
...movement and mobility in a wheelchair. Although Kinmont was retained as a technical adviser for this film, Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus, Ash Wednesday) has directed it with great doses of moral uplift and sentiment. The Other Side of the Mountain is photographed in the blindingly bright colors of a souvenir postcard, but is even less useful. It is too heavy for mailing and far too light to take seriously...
Despite the doll debacle and other happenings viewed as sexist, like the sale of souvenir potholders, the conference managed to end on a relatively positive note. The 1,300 official delegates unanimously approved a ten-year World Plan of Action designed to improve the status of the world's 2 billion women. The 48-page plan, like all U.N. resolutions, is not legally binding, but member nations are urged to incorporate it into their own political and economic programs. Australia's Reid worried that the new resolutions would wind up in the "bottom drawers of government...
...victory over wind, sleet, 100-ft. waves and British muddle came on the 160th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, and it sent Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn into a fit of hyperbole as he opened the first valve on the Isle of Grain. Benn held aloft a souvenir bottle of the crude and announced to an assembly that included U.S. Ambassador Elliot Richardson: "This is much more significant and historic than the moon shot, which only brought back soil and rock...
...diplomatic corps, which includes a Canadian archbishop and a London brewer who have volunteered to serve as "ambassadors." These envoys are looking for investors, so far with only modest success. As yet, the capital's sights include only a chapel, a restaurant and souvenir shop-cum-post office, where tourists can buy Hutt River T shirts ($4) and wall plaques ($5.30)-but no Hutt River ashtrays. Sniffs the protocol-conscious prince: "You never stub cigarettes on heraldry." Casley plans soon to station a sentry on the Hutt River border and require visitors to purchase visas for 53?. Although...