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Baseball: Twins on a Tear

When a baseball team that was one of the favorites (at 3-1 odds) to win he American League pennant loses 16 out of 26 spring exhibition games and

winds up 18th in the Grapefruit League standings, the question is: What's wrong? The answer is nothing—not when that same team wins six out of its first eight regular-season games in a row, outscormg the opposition by 44

runs to 22.

After shellacking the Baltimore Orioles 6-3 on the road last week, the Twins flew home to Minnesota, serenaded by the strains of Goin' Out of...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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