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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago (77-85, AL West, fifth): Rick Horton (8-3) is Chicago's ace of the staff. Right. Hal Baines (.293, 20 HR, 93 RBI) and Ivan Calderon can't do everything. Best player: Calderon...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Guide to the 1988 Baseball Season | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

With the overall match score tied at 5-5, Kumar and David Astorinu each held his service-game to send the match into a tiebreaker. Trailing 9-8 in the tiebreaker, Kumar scored a hard forehand smash and an ace to win the set and match...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Slip By Owls, Take Season-Opener | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...machinery still works. Sixty years after The Front Page hit Broadway, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce retains its manic energy and toxic bite. Gags still pinwheel out of the plot -- the one about a managing editor trying to scoop the world on a big story while keeping his ace reporter from deserting him to get married. And, as three previous movie incarnations have proved, The Front Page turns briskly whether the reporter is a man (Pat O'Brien in 1931, Jack Lemmon in 1974) or the boss's ex-wife (Rosalind Russell | in the 1940 His Girl Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weakened Update: THE FRONT PAGE | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...will be looking for more in-depth proposals for higher education, not just platitudes," says Saunders of ACE. Saunders says that it would be "disturbing if they [the candidates] were using it as a God and motherhood issue...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Ivory Platforms | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...depression from national winter shortcomings is no more memorable than the average American luge run. Still, George vowed to slay the dragon of Olympic mediocrity: "We should go after ((excellence)) and spare no expense." So with baseball an exhibition sport this summer in Seoul, would Owner Steinbrenner donate an ace Yankee hurler during the pennant stretch for the sake of national glory? Sure -- "if the other owners did." Pause. Hmm. Well . . . "You wouldn't want to give up your star players. Maybe somebody from Triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In the Aftermath, Grousing About the U.S. | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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