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...grass was lush and verdant enough, but it seemed even more so because for the previous 22 years, the field in Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) had been covered by that insult to both aesthetics and orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick...
Perhaps the only consolation of the strike was that it gave the Royals a head start on replacing their artificial surface with real grass. One of the great ironies of our time-all right, a slight exaggeration-is that the 66-year-old Toma, a groundkeeper so renowned he has his own autographed rake, presided over a carpet all these years. "I count this as one of the greatest days of my life," he said before the game. Indeed it was Toma, arriving in a pink Cadillac and dressed in white tails, who threw out the first ball...
Olsson's employees lamented the same developments. "You can interact with the customers here because we're a small business," said Toma Kenstowicz, a store employee. "The customers don't just bring the things to the register. They ask you to help them...
DIED. Simon Oakland, 61, husky, gravel-voiced character actor; of cancer; in Cathedral City, Calif. Best known as the abrasive psychiatrist who provided tidy Freudian explanations for the murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Oakland also starred in three TV series (Toma, The Night Stalker, The Black Sheep Squadron) and portrayed a terminally ill cancer patient in the 1977 Pulitzer-prizewinning Broadway play The Shadow...
...venerable battlewagon is still awesome. Her 16-in. guns can hurl shells that weigh 2,700 Ibs. each (the weight of a Chevrolet) as far as 23 miles. She has been fitted with Toma hawk and Harpoon missiles, some with nuclear warheads; the Toma hawk can hit targets 1 ,500 miles away...