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...program to identify a heavenly body that he has seen in the sky. Says Litsios: "This has really expanded my field of vision. I saw more in the six weeks after I got TellStar than I had in the six years before that." The Bide-a-Wee animal shelter in New York City is using a program called Choose-a-Pooch, which helps match potential owners with homeless mongels. Devised by Randy Lockwood, 35, an assistant psychology professor at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York...
...certainly should be. The White Sox are proposing to play a lefthanded fielder at third base. Only a few loitering pitchers have tried it since Washington First Baseman Joe Kuhel attempted one game in 1936, and the modern record for swiveling 90° pivots must have been set by Wee Willie Keeler in 44 games over six seasons at the turn of the century. Manager Tony La Russa's idea is to excuse regular Third Baseman Vance Law from facing the ace righthanders and hope the lefthanded bat of former Gold Glove First Baseman Mike Squires is not offset...
...glassy-eyed boatmen are more drowsy than cold. The crew of the Cooperative Vanguard hand-lettered a sign that sums up " their plight: WELCOME - BOREDOM CITY - POP. 16. Says Doug ("Pee-wee") Flannery, 24, a deckhand on the White Knight: "You just watch the second hand go around." To keep busy, the crew of the Hawkeye has adopted four mallard hens; the men aboard the Ann Blessey cast for carp using hot dogs and cheddar cheese. One deckhand reportedly persuaded the pilot of the White Knight to steer a ragged course around the ice floes in pursuit of real...
...Wee-hours TV news flops...
...network TV news. Stymied by the resistance of affiliate stations to proposals for an hour-long evening newscast, troubled by the growth of Ted Turner's round-the-clock Cable News Network, and eager for new advertising opportunities, all three networks turned last year to the postmidnight, wee-hours wasteland of reruns and B movies. NBC and ABC each added an hour of late, late news; CBS added four. Vowed NBC News President Reuven Frank: "If changing life-styles mean people are ready to watch, we will do programs for them...