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...Piniella assumed a modest lead. Bench fired a pick-off throw to Pete Rose. Piniella was safe by a millimeter. Now the Yankees had seen Johnny Bench's arm. With one out in the sixth, Mickey Rivers, the speed of the Yankees, reached first. He tried to steal and Morgan was a shade slow covering second. Bench started to throw. He held the ball and waited. Then he fired. This was the 24th consecutive postseason game in which no one would steal a base off Johnny Bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY: Sing One Happy Song, Johnny | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Kahn added that most bicycle thieves are juveniles and that the word gets out fast that Harvard isn't an easy place to steal bikes anymore...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: The Pickings Are Slimmer For Harvard Bike Thieves | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

...mailing of bursar's cards valid through 1980 to faculty members and other University officers, some of whom either had already left Harvard or whose appointments would expire within five years. The 10/80 card mailing generated fear among Harvard librarians that the cards would be used to steal books...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Challenging Harvard's top dogs | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Witness their constituents in Southie. Racism pervades the life. The-Irish endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Witness their constituents in Southie. Racism pervades the life. The-Irish endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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