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...exempt from vast reaches of the law. But now, in the case of Andy Messersmith, the courts have upheld the ruling of a baseball arbitrator that if a player plays out his option-performs for a full season without signing-the contract cannot be extended again by the club. Thereupon the player becomes what none of the former greats of the game could ever hope to be-a talent who can sell himself to any owner willing to meet his price. (The celebrated Catfish Hunter case of 1974 was different. Hunter was declared a free agent by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn...
...Israeli Commander on the northern front. Major General Yitzhak Hoffi, told his superior: "I am not sure that we can hold out much longer." After midnight. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan solemnly warned Premier Golda Meir: "This is the end of the third temple."* Mrs. Meir thereupon gave Dayan permission to activate Israel's Doomsday weapons. As each bomb was assembled, it was rushed off to waiting air force units. Before any triggers were set, however, the battle on both fronts turned in Israel's favor. The 13 bombs were sent to desert arsenals, where they remain today, still ready...
...about 100 cheering supporters. Cried out one woman: "How does it feel to win?" Said Reagan: "No comment." Squealed another woman: "Aren't you happy?" Repeated Reagan: "No comment." Having just become one of the few candidates in political annals to be struck speechless by a victory, he thereupon quick-stepped to his plane for the long flight home to California...
...ward is in--the medicine has been spilled, the patients are filthy, etc. She vindictively turns on Billy and reduces him to a state of utter pathos by threatening to tell his mother about his night with the woman. Left alone for a minute, the boy commits suicide. McMurphy thereupon throws himself on Ratched and comes very close to strangling her. A guard knocks him out just in time, though, and he's sent off for a lobotomy. Finally the big Indian (who's really been taking "the system" for a ride all along and simply pretending to be deaf...
...week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels' second, more ambitious goal: that Argentina's military should...