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Batters better swing high, wide and fan some when Fidel Castro, 37, steps up to the mound to give a demonstration of his celebrated pitching prowess. Since he won the revolution, he has not lost a game. But now it appears that Fidel's new soothing syrup is for domestic consumption as well as export. Radio Havana breathlessly reported that a recent beisbol game ended 3-0 after five innings with el máxima lider the losing hurler, though naturally he was "in magnificent form." Why five innings? Well, when Castro walks off the field, it seems that...
Steeple & Post. With more than 420 "shunpike" routes plotted across the state, Massachusetts is the pleasure cruiser's best friend and the country's finest driving range. There are roads to pick flowers by and roads to watch the leaves turn from, roads to maple syrup territory, seafood, flower and jazz festivals, a road for the Thanksgiving dash straight to Plymouth Rock. There is the original Mohawk Trail from Boston to the Berkshire Hills, brought up to date and dubbed Mass. Route 2. An alternate, Route 2A, links Revolutionary landmarks from Battle Green at Lexington to Concord...
...MILLSTONE. From the colonial atmosphere of the New England pavilion's restaurant, you can look out onto a millpond while enjoying Down-East specialties like johnnycakes with hot maple syrup, clam chowder, fresh sea food, blueberry slump and apple grunt...
Secretaries turned out during their lunch hour; housewives with kids queued up before trips to the supermarket; businessmen stopped by after a day at the office. Wherever the blue-and-white trailer picked a place to park in Cleveland, crowds gathered for a free drink of flavored corn syrup. And two hours later the drinkers returned to the trailer. Not that Clevelanders were afflicted with a sudden thirst; on their second visit, instead of getting another shot of syrup, they donated a blood sample. A technician smeared the blood on chemically treated cardboard. In a matter of moments the results...
...have turned up a 4.5% incidence of diabetes among Clevelanders, and Kent and Leonards suspect that the old estimate of approximately 1% for the entire U.S. is far too low. They hope to get a chance to check their hunch next year when the DAC test, with its corn-syrup cocktail, is expected to get a nationwide tryout...