Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloudless day in Winter Haven, Fla., where everyone has been taken with No. 21, both the age and the uniform of Boston Red Sox Pitcher Roger Clemens, a righthander who won the deciding game of the past college world series for the University of Texas and spent last summer brightening two minor leagues. Against Detroit a few days ago, Clemens struck out three men on ten pitches, causing Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson to proclaim, "This is the best, most poised young pitcher I've seen since Tom Seaver: great rising fastball, pretty good curve...
...playing Los Angeles now, and Sandy Koufax, who did get scattery when he was 21, has momentarily reappeared at 48 in his Dodger uniform. "One year I got so tired of trying to find home plate," he says, "I dumped all of my equipment in the clubhouse trash can and walked out." Koufax begins to tell a story of his first game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, and just as he is giving up a double to Sam Mele, who should happen by in a Red Sox suit but Mele. This is the charm of spring training. Ted Williams...
...paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence of American visitors in uniform may sabotage the more lucrative business of attracting American visitors in swimsuits...
...Review publishes eight monthly issues during the academic year, including a special issue on recent Supreme Court decisions. The Review also publishes A Uniform System of Citation, the standard legal form book. More than 75,000 copies of the book are sold annually, bringing in half of the non profit corporation's $600,000 gross revenues...
Like virtually every other city today, Jerusalem is beset by traffic jams, insufficient parking, illegal building and lack of maintenance. Yet Kollek's new planning approach is aesthetically successful, largely because it recognizes and emphasizes Jerusalem's two most striking aspects: its uniform golden color, which assures the blending of old and new, and the solemn majesty of the Old City wall, which symbolizes the pre-eminence of the Jerusalem where Jews built their first Temple, Christians mark the Resurrection, and Muslims commemorate Muhammad's ascension to heaven...