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Time was when the first sound of spring was the solid thwack of bat meeting ball, as major league baseball play ers gathered at sunny Southern retreats to limber up for the coming season. In recent years, that traditional ceremony has been muffled by noisy arguments about binding arbitration, boycotts and walkouts. Last year the players staged a 13-day strike that caused the cancellation of 86 regular season games. This year, just before preseason work outs were scheduled to begin, the team owners struck back by refusing to open the training camps. No ballplaying, said the moneymen - not until...
...that was missing from the scene was the distant drum roll and the thwack of the guillotine blade as White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler briskly announced each day which heads will roll in the President's pruning of the bureaucracy. Last week alone the count of important resignations accepted reached 17, bringing the overall total to nearly 60. Not in memory had a U.S. President made such a clean sweep of his own appointments...
...when I'm asleep." A methodical player like Nicklaus will go an entire round without uttering a word. Lee the Lip chatters before, after and sometimes even during a shot. "You know," he will say as he tees up, "I've got to be the only Mexican"?thwack goes his drive down the fairway?"who's never been in a detention home. I just never got caught." On another hole, he will announce: "Five years ago, I was teeing up on dirt. Now I've got tees" ?thwack?"with my name on 'em." Orville Moody, one of Trevino...
Krassner has a point. John Wayne has become one of the pop-artifacts of contemporary life. He carries with him the unmistakable aura of camp and comic strip, as if his conversation came in balloons. As if when he slugged the opposition there would issue forth a thunderous THWACK! and SOCKO! In person, the seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars...
...even Castro's constant companion Celia Sanchez. But it was Castro who set the pace. "Look how I do it," he instructed his interviewer. "I begin cutting from there to here, always protecting myself from the sun. My system is more rhythmic and more systematic." Chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...