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...majors, with the exception of the Rickey Henderson A's, in stolen bases, successfully employing the squeeze play almost two dozen times, and always sending the man home from third it also means third string catcher Glenn Brummer stealing home with two outs in the bottom of the twelfth and speedy Tommy Herr scoring from second on an infield...
...nerve-racking week, news flashed across Wall Street tickers that Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company, had bid to acquire Cities Service for an average price of $41.67 per share. Cities Service announced that it would consider the offer at a special meeting of its board of directors early this week but also said that it was still talking to other major companies about possible merger deals. Though far less generous than Gulfs original bid, the Occidental offer could reverse more than a third of the losses that investors have sustained on Cities Service stock...
...endearment, while clinging to acting and directing mannerisms that even his audience may have outgrown. Has he lost the knack? Or just misplaced it? An answer should come soon enough. His next film-not a period piece, we are advised-surfaces at Christmas. Pray it's not called Twelfth Night. -By Richard Corliss
...brought him more recognition, notoriety and money than two novels, last year's The Cardinal Sins (2.6 million copies in print) and this year's Thy Brother's Wife. The first is in its 21st week on the paperback bestseller list, the second in its twelfth on the hardback charts...
This 1982 World Cup-the twelfth summit meeting in 52 years-may be the largest, richest and possibly the most grandiose athletic contest in history. The Cup's only real competitor is the Olympic Games, also a quadrennial event. But, as soccer fans point out, the comparison is unfair-to the Olympics. After all, the World Cup has a single, dramatic, inexorable focus: 22 men, eleven on each side, mostly well-paid professionals, speeding around a patch of grass, chasing a black-and-white ball called a tango as quickly and as cleverly as their feet can carry them...