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Finishing 1975 with a respectable 260 average, Cronin knocked home 22 runs, scored 19 himself and swiped six bases. Through the season's first 20 games, he hit a lusty 357, but a 3 for 26 dry spell over the final eight contests brought him down to earth. He ranked second on the team in RBI's and fifth in runs scored...
...some companies, a recall can spell financial disaster. For example, the Food and Drug Administration, which also has jurisdiction over radiation-emitting products, recently ordered the recall of 400,000 Panasonic color-television sets, almost 280,000 of which were in the hands of consumers. The FDA suspected the sets of being radiation hazards. To locate and repair the sets could cost Panasonic's Japanese owner, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., about $11 million, which is equal to Panasonic's U.S. profits for the past several years...
...complete the process of regaining her humanity. Clara falls in love at first sight with a graceful young man. Luigi (Daniel Quenaud), whose cardboard sensitivity and self-indulgent acting make him an ersatz Prince Charming. This love affair is brief and passionate, but unconsummated for the spell is abruptly broken by Clara's cure, which inexorably returns her to obligations at home. As the train hurtling southward nears Milan, the skies darken with thunderclouds, gracelessly symbolizing the descent from ethereal realms of sweetness and light into the quotidian agonies of proletarian life...
Richard Adams has written a second novel, and may the Great Bear God help him. It seems certain that he is in for a spell of heavyweight reviewing, the kind of borborygmic reappraisal the critical community indulges in when it feels slightly ill and foolish after a gorge of overpraise. What was overpraised, of course, was Watership Down, a bunny epic greeted last year as if it were a cross between Moby-Dick and The Wind in the Willows. The excessive praise was a critical phenomenon that occurs every year or so when reviewers tire of the stinginess that honesty...
...tournament with an undefeated slate. The tournament is a two-day, 36-hole meet which will be contested for the first time this year. As for Merrimack, it returns to North Andover with the knowledge that one Nichlaus is simply not enough, especially one who doesn't even spell his name correctly...