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...certain calculations, pitching in Chicago's shrunken and windblown Wrigley Field can add a full point to earned-run averages. Yet Sutcliffe refused what all sides acknowledge was more cash to join the National League Champion Padres. Tugging on his roots in Independence, Mo., Kansas City showed Sutcliffe exactly where his grandfather's season seat would be. Again the pitcher resisted. "My heart told me to come back to Chicago," he says without embarrassment. "After the way things went last year, I guess I became a Cub fan." Behind his 16 victories against just one loss, the Cubs graced postseason...
...game opened inauspiciously, as Crimson pitcher Gerri Rubin hit the first batter, walked the third, and then gave up a windblown triple to right to the Terriers cleanup batter, Lori Legoff...
...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
...already made attempts to cut through the isthmus, even in failure showing it could be done. T.R. knew the time was ripe. Soil conservation was a science long before Franklin Roosevelt lifted it to the top of the national agenda and we began to heal the washed and windblown land. Ike grasped the importance of a huge interstate highway system. His endorsement helped push 23,500 miles of superhighways across the country in a decade...
There are two documentary images of the Great Plains. The first is a black-and-white photograph of the '30s Dust Bowl, with windblown homesteaders treading the cracked earth. The second: a glossy color shot of the same land 40 years later, showing the lush checkerboard farms of America's breadbasket. Now, as if through a strange reversal in time, the second image threatens to fade into the first. For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair. The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir of water that transformed much of the Great Plains...