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He has bombinated about his career in the Big Leagues twice, in The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two. Now Ron Luciano appears as you never saw him before: unemployed. He remains funny but unbowed: "The bankruptcy went very well. I've got the car running again." By the ump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

The relationship between money and freedom has always been philosophically difficult. "One need not go so far as to accept the dictum that money is crystallized freedom," wrote Economist Henry Wallich. "But it is hard to argue that money and freedom have nothing to do with each other . . . Men will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom First | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Originally, a big birthday cake was to float down the Charles, but Wainwright says the cake would have been scalped by the low bridges over the river. After discovering they couldn't have their cake and eat it too, Harvard changed the program to feature musicians and jugglers from the...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: All That Glitters | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

Cuomo loathes labels, deriding them as "one-word summaries of an entire philosophy." He challenges anyone to define him. "How about the money we spent on prisons?" Cuomo asks. He has built more than 6,000 new cells. "Is that liberal or conservative?" He cites his $1.2 billion transportation bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Soviet citizens received vastly less information about Chernobyl than was available to the outside world. In Kiev, foreigners were the first to learn of the seriousness of the accident when authorities warned West German technicians on Tuesday that the Chernobyl area was being sealed off. Most of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Meltdown | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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