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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rookie year in 1976, Mark Fidrych shied away from the self-congratulatory stardom of major league baseball. When asked about his pitching with the Detroit Tigers, he would smile and say, "It's no big deal." When agents urged him to cash in on his success financially, he would answer, exuberantly, "I play baseball." And the fans loved him, they had never seen anything like him. Tall, gawky, like a stork out of water, Fidrych stepped on the field with a flurry of limbs, hair and mutterings. Not since Dizzy Dean bamboozled his way into the national heart...

Author: By Chris Agee, | Title: A Bird From The Bush | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...colonel was indeed too good to be true. In a half-hour 60 Minutes segment in 1973, Lando and Correspondent Mike Wallace challenged a number of Herbert's allegations, and interviewed fellow officers unable to substantiate them Herbert sued Lando, Wallace and CBS for libel, demanding that Lando answer questions about his state of mind when he prepared the program. Lando balked, and in January a judge ordered him to comply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Herbert's War | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...Carter is not the final answer, but at least he gives us a glimpse of a direction," says Dean Francis B. Sayre Jr. of the Washington Cathedral (Episcopal) "In him we have a President of balance and of conscience, and that has an immediate effect." Peter Bourne, a psychiatrist who acts as White House special assistant for health issues, describes it as "a ripple effect." Says he: "When Carter talks about the positive aspects of marriage about developing welfare programs that reinforce the family . . . it makes people look at marriage differently." Sociologist Etziom agrees: "We don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Morality | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...answer thy summons O Lord, I answer...

Author: By Sanaa Makhlouf, | Title: A Voyage Devotion | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...answer thy summons, Thou hast no partner to Thee, I answer...

Author: By Sanaa Makhlouf, | Title: A Voyage Devotion | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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