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After every sparkless half-inning, Mager would run in or out of the dugout, reminding his team that there was a lot of baseball left to play. At times, the Crimson players looked as if they wished there wasn?...
...didn't have one. A lot of the stories her friends related amused her. The others frightened or angered her. Leslie Randall and her roommate, for example, had grown tired of being alone, feeling wounded and rejected, or of going to parties and trying to make sparkling conversation with sparkless companions. So they started inventing crazy things to do. For several weeks, they went to mixers and parties together and pretended they were from Wellesley. When they tired of that game, they would dress identically and outrageously, dripping with makeup and glitter. They appeared loftily bizarre and danced and spoke...
Coburn's real opposition is neither the underdressed Amazons who want to pursue him nor the overplayed villains who try to undo him. It is the same slipshod kind of script that nearly stoned the first cast and this time ensures a sparkless Flint...
Indiana (13): This is Peggy Goldwater's home state, and it is usually staunchly Republican in presidential elections. But Goldwater, hindered by a sparkless G.O.P. organization and by his own campaign, now seems to be trailing in a tight race...
...race. But there was no sign of any deep developing rifts among the triumphant G.O.P. leaders. Vandenberg will preside over the Senate as president pro tem. Elderly (69) Wallace White, ineffectual minority leader during G.O.P. underdog days, will become majority leader by courtesy. The G.O.P. spark plug will be sparkless, plugging Bob Taft, serving as boss of the steering committee. Nebraska's Ken Wherry will be party whip...