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...Yogi Berra and Frankie Frisch...
While he was probably shooting the breeze on a baseball diamond somewhere in Arizona, Yogi Berra's wisdom was being reaffirmed on two basketball courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey last night...
...Yogi Berra might say, it was deja vu all over again. Five weeks after a computer-science graduate student forced the Defense Department to shut down , its Arpanet computer network by infecting it with a self-duplicating electronic virus, the Pentagon learned that one of its smaller military information systems, Milnet, had been broken into by an unknown hacker. Last week Mitre Corp., a Massachusetts-based defense contractor, warned the Pentagon that someone had gained unauthorized access to Mitre's system, which is linked to the Arpanet network. Fortunately, the invader had access only to nonclassified material, and none...
Never before has the light bulb, once considered the most innovative creation of the past 100 years, created so much hysteria. Run for your lives, the lights are on at Wrigley. Yogi and the fat lady can start singing now. It's going, going, gone...
George Will for one--and that should have been reason enough to convince any right-thinking fan to smile broadly last night. In the past few years, the Yogi Berras of the game have taken a back seat to what Stephen Jay Gould recently called the "pointy-heads." These are the people who see in every ground ball to short a reference to Shakespeare. Baseball's funny men loved their game, but, thank God, they knew it was a game and they didn't take it too seriously. Can you imagine Yogi saying, as the No Lights fanatics...