Word: vida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolling along with a five-and-a-half-game lead in the West Division of the American League. How come? The main reason is a 21-year-old lefthanded fireballer with a moniker made for the Oakland roster. The name-mark it well-is Vida Blue...
Last week Vida (as in Ida) Blue (as in streak) set down the world champion Baltimore Orioles with four hits to register his eighth straight victory, against one defeat. He now leads the American League in earned-run average (1.01), strikeouts (78), shutouts (4) and complete games (8). His approach is devastatingly simple: "I blow them down"-meaning he pitches fastballs 80% of the time. "I don't try to finesse a batter," he says. "I just try to hit the corners or jam a guy and break his bat. I enjoy breaking...
...eleventh in the past eleven years-has taught the erratic, phlegmatic A's to think positive. Confidence has never been a problem for "my little Sandy Koufax," as Williams likes to call Blue-with one qualifier. "Koufax didn't become a pitcher for six years," says Williams. "Vida's there already...
There was not much plot in Brautigan's 1967 bestseller, Trout Fishing In America, or In Watermelon Sugar (1968), which were not so much novels as paper bags full of disassociated whimsy. By contrast, The Abortion has a real story. The heroine is Vida, who brings a manuscript to the library one night. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The hero makes her feel comfortable. They live together in the back of the library, and she bakes chocolate cookies, which the hero gives to old ladies who bring manuscripts at three...
...rich get tossed $204 million). ( Naeva Presencia, Guatemala, University of San Carlos, Facultad de Economic, July, 1970) Twelve of every one hundred children die before age four, six on them from measles. The illiteracy rate is the second highest in Latin America. (Juan Maestro Alfonso, Estudias de la vida rural en America Central, Madrid, 1969, cited in Madrid, Jan, 17, 1970) Since it leaves the people "vulnerable to Castroite propaganda" (quote from ex-president Fuentes, Alerta, May 31, 1970, p. 3) education is not stressed. And as for how they eat, the director of U.N.'s INCAP Institute of Nutrition...