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...outfield Williams hits fungoes. "The Splendid Splinter" is no longer a splinter. His stomach expands his windbreaker. "Ted the Kid"-his other nickname-is 63. Between fungoes he steals wistful glances at the kids in the batting cage doing the real hitting, kids who weren't even born when he retired. When he hits a ball over a frantically scrambling young outfielder's head, he gives a cackling laugh and shouts, "Bye! See yah later." An old man's revenge...
...about 3.6% in the past year, to an average of $33.55 per bbl. Others, recalling OPEC'sS clout during the 1970s, are more wary. Says Standard Oil of Indiana's chief economist, Theodore Eck: "They wouldn't have agreed to a special meeting if they weren't confident of achieving some results...
Making Love is a case of the bland leading what its creators consider to be the blind. Says Director Arthur Hiller of his highly sanitized love scenes: "We weren't trying to say this is how gays make love. This is terribly new for most of the country, so you must lead them into it gently." As for Personal Best, Writer-Director Robert Towne has come to resent his film's identification as a gay tract. "The name of the movie is not 'Personal Fruit.' There are two minutes of lovemaking and an hour of competition...
...Within the first five games we could do it all," said Kleinfelder this week of the relentless schedule. "We want to see the competition early. If we weren't going to see it now, I think we'd have more trouble later [at Easterns and Nationals...
Classics senior co-captain Glen Mills participated in j.v. basketball his freshman year wanting to be a computer science concentrator. Confident that "there weren't enough hours in the day to do both" --and not desiring to give up organized basketball entirely--he found the Classics perfect...