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...Bud Collins, the balding cherub of tennis broadcasting tumbled to new lows in sports coverage with his shot-by-shot coverage of Saturday's thrilling McEnroe-Borg final. You no doubt recall last year's Wimbledon confrontation between the two top players in men's tennis, when Collins again and again shouted that "Bjorn can taste victory, but John keeps sprinkling pepper all over it." For Bud, this year's final was even spicier...
...suburbs, in recreational centers and in national parks. It is an unrecognized tornado." Nor does this overstate the case. A special investigative team of TIME correspondents found that in Vienna, Ga., or Venice, Calif., a gram of coke was about as hard to find as a six-pack of Bud. Whether in a suburban high school outside Los Angeles, on Wall Street or Madison Avenue or in the interstices of ostensibly "straight" Middle America, $100 will rapidly summon up a gram of what goes for cocaine...
Charlie Virgil, the janitor, was waiting in the parking lot for Manager John ("Bud") Grainger to arrive and open the bank. Then a man in a mask put a gun to Virgil's head and forced him into a white van crudely painted and taped to look like a Mountain Bell telephone service truck. Four gunmen warned Virgil to cooperate or they would shoot his wife. Grainger came, then David Harris, branch operations supervisor. The gunmen needed both to unlock the vault. Less than 20 minutes later the thieves had driven away with $3.3 million in cash, which...
...acquired individual names about two million years ago, and ever since, the species has persisted in abusing this innovation through a single insidious practice--name-dropping. My friends and I are awfully distressed by this vicarious form of status-seeking and so, to nip incipient name-droppers in the bud, here is a stage-by-stage account of the development of a name-dropper...
House Budget Committee Chairman James Jones will unveil this week a bud get proposal that would slash spending $4 billion more than the Administration's plan, but with a very different set of priorities. Jones and the Democratic leadership would cut $4 billion out of planned defense spending and $1.5 billion out of energy outlays, for example, while restoring $7 billion of cuts that Reagan wants in such programs as Medicaid, food stamps and child nutrition. On the tax side, the Democrats reject Reagan's threeyear, across-the-board slash in income tax rates in favor...