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With the new season just 2½ weeks old, the A's have delivered an emphatic answer to the hot-stove skeptics: the longest season-opening streak in modern baseball history. Oakland won its first eleven games, breaking the ten-game record held by three teams. Throughout that remarkable span, the A's starting pitchers completed all but one game and compiled a miserly 1.27 earned run average. At week's end Oakland had won 15 of 16 games, opening a full ten-game lead over the defending champion Kansas City Royals...
...television set has long since evolved from a rare electronic marvel into a household appliance that is as ubiquitous as the kitchen stove. Now, a host of video products is appearing on the market that can transform the home TV from a passive machine capable of receiving broadcast programs into a versatile instrument permitting viewers to watch whatever programs they want, when they want. The latest entry in this market is videodiscs, machines that reproduce recorded programs or movies from a record-like platter onto the screen of any home television set. Next week, RCA Corp. will unleash an avalanche...
...risks: Mead went to Somoa against the advice of her adviser (he thought it would be safer for a young woman to study the American Indian). They also take advantage of chance. Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanizing rubber after carelessly dropping some raw rubber on a hot stove. Cage makes more intentional use of chance, employing an I Ching--an ancient Chinese book of charts used to determine oracles--to compose some of his music. "Most people who believe that I'm interested in chance don't realize that I use chance as a discipline," he says. "They...
...mother, Cucinotta keeps little American flags around the house. After learning that the Supreme Court would hear his case, he went to Washington to look at the court building. "I was moved. I kissed the steps," he says. "Well, not really." He kisses his hand and slaps the kitchen stove. "Like that...
...years ago, Portland, Ore., Physician Donald Trelstad and his wife Cindy, put a $450 wood-burning stove in the kitchen of their rambling turn-of-the-century home. Last March they spent $2,400 on storm windows. After the installation of a second wood stove this winter, they expect to shut down their old oil furnace for good. Boasts Cindy: "We could afford the oil bills. It's just that we'd rather not give the money to the Arab cartel. We're sort of proud of the fact that we won't burn...