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...baseball has changed profoundly since the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. In that contest between the Cincinnati Reds and the Red Sox, a game that is now consistently recalled as among the most exciting ever played, the Sox defeated the Reds when catcher Carlton Fisk hit a twelfth inning home run just inside the left field foul pole. The Reds won the series the next day in less dramatic fashion, and just a few weeks later the free agent was born, changing baseball forever...
...Young Ben and his siblings ate separately from their parents, had to be in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached. Spock concludes: "There must be easier and pleasanter ways to raise children than the severity...
...when the European Community's ten foreign ministers emerged bleary-eyed from a conference room atop Brussels' Charlemagne Building. They had just cleared the way for the young Iberian democracies, Spain and Portugal, to become the eleventh and twelfth members of the Community next Jan. 1. Beyond its economic impact, the event was fraught with political significance. It helped boost the stature of the two countries' governments and anchored them more firmly in the West European camp. Declared Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Moran: "Now we can get rid of the inferiority complex in international affairs that Spaniards often have...
...book contains no sex, drugs or florid writing, but it is a best seller on college campuses all the same. Titled simply Economics, the classic textbook by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson has sold nearly 4 million copies since its 1948 debut. In the twelfth version, published last week by McGraw-Hill ($32.95), Samuelson for the first time has a co-author, Yale Professor William Nordhaus, who served on President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Samuelson, 69, who will retire in May from his professorship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose Nordhaus, 43, to help keep the book timely...
...White House, the message was a high point in their struggle against abortion: an open endorsement from the President. "I feel a great sense of solidarity with all of you," Ronald Reagan said in a telephone call broadcast to the crowd by loudspeakers. "Our response to the twelfth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade . . . must be to rededicate ourselves to ending the terrible national tragedy of abortion . . . I feel these days, as never before, the momentum is with...