Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's fellow victims were also on their separate roads to recovery. Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy left the hospital headed for a month's R. and R. in Acapulco. Washington Policeman Thomas Delahanty was not seriously wounded in the shooting. But surgeons last week removed a bullet from his neck, necessitating a longer hospital stay. Delahanty had his homecoming Saturday...
...call to "Play ball!," the surest and happiest sign of spring, has sounded once again. The crack of the bat has replaced the clack of the auctioneer's gavel selling off free-agent flesh. Players safe in their tax shelters now worry only about being safe at first, and owners prick their ears for the sweetest music they know, the clatter of turnstiles. The baseball season has begun...
...long the season will last is problematical. With a Memorial Day weekend strike deadline drawing near, the owners and players are still locked in a nasty dispute over free-agent compensation. The issue, deferred in an eleventh-hour compromise that prevented a strike last season, seems no closer to settlement than it was a year ago. Under the old agreement, a veteran can play out his option and sell his services on the open market; in compensation for loss of his services, his former team was awarded an amateur draft choice from his new club. The owners want...
...Matthews has it: "You get your heroine up a tree and then throw stones at her. In the end she gets the man, the money and the happiness." In Rhapsody (Pocket; $2.75), a typical contemporary, Lane is afraid to tell the desirable pianist, Michael, that she is a talent agent. When he discovers her occupation, Michael mistakenly believes that she loves him only for his signature on a contract...
...right, reporters, Government officials and bystanders instinctively ducked for cover. But Brown stayed on his feet to capture a series of haunting images that by day's end were burned into the national memory: the President waving, then being jackknifed into his limousine by a Secret Service agent; Press Secretary James Brady and a Secret Service agent falling to the pavement wounded. Brown swung his camera around in the direction of the assailant, by then smothered under a swarm of armed Secret Service men and Washington, B.C., police. "Then I saw them kick a gun away, and I followed...