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...Owner George Steinbrenner returned the national pastime to normal: he fired his manager. Steinbrenner changes managers about as often as most fans change underwear, though he does it with more anguish and bigger headlines. The latest victim was Gene Michael, the eighth Yankee manager in as many years to succumb to Steinbrenner's peculiar style of baseball by psychodrama...
...never been quite sure who that Brian Jones character was are proud to be Rolling Stones fans again. All of this is fine; better to have Jagger and Richards on the radio than Journey and REO Speedwagon. But Tattoo You and the Stones' apparent determination to play until they succumb to shuffleboard and bingo has some dedicated followers worried...
There is little likelihood that the cocaine blizzard will soon abate. A drug habit born of a desire to escape the bad news in life is not likely to be discouraged by the bad news about the drug itself. And so middle class Americans continue to succumb to the powder's crystalline dazzle. Few are yet aware or willing to concede that at the very least, taking cocaine is dangerous to their psy chological health. It may be no easy task to reconvince them that good times are made, not sniffed...
Even so, many people delay in seeking medical help. The consequences can be fateful. More than half of the 550,000 Americans who die of heart attacks each year succumb before they reach a hospital. In a study of coronary patients at the University of Rochester, cardiologists found that the average interval between the onset of symptoms and hospitalization was 3½ hours, yet some 80% of these patients had experienced severe chest pains from the start. At least one reason for this hesitation is a belief that a heart attack always results in total incapacitation...
When he wrote The Hostage in 1958. Behan appealed to human kindness to make himself understood. The Hostage pulls off a rare dramatic teat: it's "political" without being heavy-handed, a message play that doesn't succumb to self-righteous moralizing. It takes place in a Dublin brothel where I.R.A. officers hold an eighteen-year-old British soldier hostage in reprisal for one of their own men who awaits hanging in a Belfast jail, Irish. The whorehouse-declaimed by society as a sinful place-is inhabited by a gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their...