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...third term for Ronald Reagan? Michigan Representative Guy Vander Jagt thinks "one of the greatest American Presidents of all time" should have another four years in office, and he has told 300,000 Republicans so in a fund-raising letter. Also enclosed is a petition urging repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which since 1951 has banned the election of anyone to more than two terms in the White House...
...from Tampa, a small but fertile baseball city that, like the spring- training teams that invigorate the region every March, seems to specialize in the unlikeliest dreams. "Kids are always chasing rainbows," says Johnny Vander Meer, 71, a local resident, "but baseball is a world where you can catch them." While he had a losing record overall with the Reds, Cubs and Indians, Vander Meer pitched two consecutive no-hitters in 1938. As a craftsman, Gooden puts him in mind of Ewell Blackwell; as a hard thrower, he recalls Van Lingle Mungo. "But no one I ever...
Looking into the cellar, Ponder found a boiler that needed $350,000 in repairs just to pass municipal inspection. He called in an engineer from the Fisk class of '57, Vander Harris, a maintenance genius he had known in South Carolina. Harris got the boiler going for $60,000. To this day, Harris attends to the nuts and bolts of running Fisk. "We can't afford thermostats," he was saying recently. "Either the heat is on or off. You just have to figure out the retention rate of your buildings." Always looking for ways to save a buck, Harris...
...They were a very dirty team," Felsen said. "Everytime number 18 [Sandy Vander-Heyden] went by me, she hit me in the calves or in the hips. They don't need to do that at their level...
...netmen (14-3 overall, 7-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association) did not lose a set all weekend as they swept Army and Cornell, matching in their own way Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters for hte Cincinatti Reds...