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...Penn is thinner, and the Quakers are shifting from a single-wing to a Toffense. They may win some games, but probably not until they get used to the new system...
Unhappily, this seaquel is even sillier than the original mocean picture-and Blood, as somebody remarked at the time, was thinner than water. But Son never lacks excitement. In rapid succession Sean 1) takes passage in a tall ship sailing from Port Royal, Jamaica, 2) falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves...
...years later, they bought out MacPhail for $2,000,000, got that back and more when they sold Yankee Stadium and the land under it for $6,500,000 in 1953. All the rest was gravy. Then why sell? Easy. The gravy was getting thinner. Last year's attendance (1,308,920) was the lowest since World War II, may be heading lower this year. So is the team, which at sale time was bumping along 31 games behind and in third place, their worst position in mid-August since 1960. Moreover, the Yanks have always been crowd pleasers...
...Soviet development aid credits has vanished without trace in Indonesia's bottomless pit of corruption, inefficiency and poverty. On his current junket, the crafty Armenian could not help seeing that since his last visit to Sukarno-land two years ago, the swarms of scrawny, barefoot children had grown thinner and hungrier and the tens of thousands of beggars blocking the streets and sidewalks more pitiful and insistent in this the 19th year of the era of the affable Bung...
They contain less rubber, have thinner treads and inner cores of lower-grade material, and are generally built to less demanding specifications. Are the cheapies safe? The tire manufacturers insist that they are-so long as they are used only for driving about town at moderate speeds and not on constant or long highway trips. Alabama's Democratic Congressman Kenneth Roberts, who is sponsoring the tire bill in Congress, is afraid that most tire buyers do not know this. He wants a law that will make companies say why a cheapie is so cheap...