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CREAMER ALSO excels in capturing the lore of Ruth out-of-uniform. In "Kaleidoscope: Personality of the Babe," Creamer delves into a few feats which make the 714 and 60 homerun marks pall. He dredged up some of Babe's stunning epicurean exploits, including the mandatory "couple of hotdogs and a bicarb" immediately preceding every game. And several locker room observers, provide the definitive statement on Ruth's famed sexual prowess. Creamer dwells on the theme of Ruth's distorted sexuality throughout the book, in his usual lucid style...
...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...Fair Labor Standards Act also threaten to increase city costs by extending minimum-wage and overtime provisions to public employees next year. Policemen, for example, will be paid overtime for hours worked beyond 60 in any given week, even though some of the first 60 hours were spent in uniform working not for the city but for a department store as a guard. Salt Lake City Mayor EJ. Garn estimates that the amendments will cost his city $500,000 next year in increased pay alone and more than $3 million three years from now in overtime. This week the League...
Walter Heitmann is a man who looks as though he would be more comfortable in the uniform of an army officer than in the formal apparel of a diplomat. In fact, a few years ago he was one of the highest-ranking men in the Chilean Armed Forces, a general in the Air Force. His retirement in 1972 proved abortive when the military junta that ousted President Salvador Allende in September 1973 drafted him--and his fluent English--to serve the new government as its envoy to the United States. His articulateness in defending the military government of Gen. Augusto...
James P. King, director of staff services at Boston Hospital for Women, said the merger will enable patients to receive continuous and uniform health care from birth to death...