Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Walter Alston, 72, calm, temper-cooling, pennant-collecting manager who from 1954 to 1976 guided the Dodgers, in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, to seven National League titles and four World Championships; of heart disease; in Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself...
Prevailing by some ten games in the National League's West Division, the Padres were denied the sensation of a pennant race. This helps explain the town's relative calm so far, though it is a relatively calm town, "more Midwestern in principle than Los Angeles," according to Garvey. Three players, including Pitching Ace Eric Show, have publicly embraced the John Birch Society without encountering much local disapproval. Also it was a summer of mean news in San Diego: 21 people massacred at the San Ysidro McDonald's, two police officers killed in a quiet park...
...right place at the right time: behind his typewriter nearly every day. Holed up in his 19th century farmhouse in Averill Park, N.Y., Kennedy recalls, "I never expected a whole lot in the early days, but I always hoped for a great deal." The voice carries the deliberate calm of a man who has struggled singly and triumphed over great odds. One thinks of Gary Cooper in the last scenes of High Noon, though Kennedy now sees himself living in a smash movie by Federico Fellini...
Balancing-or perhaps outbalancing-that consideration, though, Ferraro decisively answered one of the hardest questions she had faced as a newcomer to national politics: How would she behave in a crisis? Veteran politicians of both parties gave her high marks for handling that crisis with unruffled calm, crisp authority and low-key humor. "She's tough; she put her head down and stuck with it," said Republican Senate Leader Howard Baker. Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, compared Ferraro to the most successful politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan...
...months, relative calm had settled over Lebanon under a peace plan adopted by its warring factions and backed by nearby Syria. The peace fell apart last week. In the northern seaport of Tripoli, a smoldering feud between a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group known as Tawheed and the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party, whose militiamen are sometimes called the Pink Panthers because of their raspberry-colored fatigues, erupted in the worst violence so far this year. Before a truce was called at week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them...