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Then the real barrage started: Midshipman Steve Acalin hit a long home run to left. Bob Dishman followed with a triple deep into the alley in right center. Left fielder Tom Kiser banged one over the 375 sign in left that Schindler didn't even bother to try for, giving the Midshipmen a 3-1 lead...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Going, Going... | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...series of skirmishes that could end only in conquest or stalemate, never détente. Who knows how to talk to them? A young man's sensible priorities- pro football, rhythm and blues, hanging out-were adolescent irrelevancies to his date, or even his mate. Then again, why bother? "You wanna talk," philosophizes one fellow in this terrific little comedy, "you always got the guys at the diner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Five Friends | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...replaced baseball as the great American pastime." Tax dodgers include executives who charge personal expenses to their companies; doctors and lawyers who demand cash payments rather than checks for their services; waiters, waitresses and cab drivers who fail to record their tips; members of barter clubs who do not bother to report trades. Some examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Tax Games | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

None of which, of course, seems to bother the President. For him, this latest masterpiece of indirection represents just one more shroud in which to cloak the shortcomings of his economic program...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Reagan's Balancing Act | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...list of Democratic and liberal heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. He presented himself as the protector of F.D.R.'s welfare state. Said Reagan: "I'm accused by some of trying to destroy Government's commitment to compassion and the needy. Does this bother me? Yes. I'm doing everything I can . . . to slow the destructive growth in taxes and spending, to prune nonessential programs so that enough resources will be left to meet the requirements of the truly needy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Be Mr. Nice Guy | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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