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Endemic Injuries. Despite that torrid pace, Cincinnati at week's end was still in a close battle with the Houston Astros for first place in the Western Division. Bench, too, had personal competition from baseball's sudden wealth of gifted catchers. His closest rival for pre-eminence is Pittsburgh's Manny Sanguillen, a favorite among fans for his antic enthusiasm. The scourge of opposing pitchers, Sanguillen stands out even among the Pirates' offensive dreadnaughts. Last week he ranked third in National League batting with a .332 average. Sanguillen, like Bench, belongs to that rare species...
...largest and most successful industrial operations is Sefen, a joint venture owned equally by seven kibbutzim and Ampal, the foreign-investment arm of the Israel Federation of Labor. Sefen's first factory, built in 1952 on the torrid Jordan Valley floor south of the Sea of Galilee, converted waste from a kibbutz plywood factory into insulator board. When Israel's building boom began in 1953, Sefen switched to making construction board. Now Sefen is a four-factory operation that last year earned a profit of $725,000 on revenues of over $11 million. It produces adhesives, scientific radiation...
...Heaven. She also seems to have a real feeling for hostile profanity, which is about as extreme her as one will find in a general-release movie. Oddly, when it comes to actions rather than words, the sex in tame, sometimes to the point of ab surdity. The most torrid encounter, a moaning simulation of cunnilingus, oc curs with both Portnoy and the Mon key fully clothed - she in pants...
...flight of man's ancestors to the sea became inevitable, Morgan says, when "torrid heat waves began to scorch the African continent," killing off the trees and drying up the food supply. At the time, things were even tougher for the female than for the male: "She had a greedy and hectoring mate," she lacked his "fighting canines" (teeth, not dogs) to fend off enemies, "she was hampered by a clinging infant," and when chased by a carnivorous cat, she "found there was no tree she could run up to escape." She "loathed getting her feet wet," but "when...
...took a curly-haired young man in a Princeton hockey shirt to ignite the slow stating Boston Celtics last nigh, but when they finally got going, the fast-breaking Celts blew the New York Knickerbockers off the court in a torrid fourth quarter, to win their playoff game...