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Indeed, he has taken faltering teams near the top wherever he has been. Then, inevitably, he would clash with the front office. Just as inevitably, his bosses answered his challenge by firing him. Tigers Hall of Fame Outfielder Al Kaline tries to explain Martin's kamikaze past: "I think it's his desire to win. He thinks he can do it better. He wants to give advice on the scouting, tell the minor league managers what to do, and he goes a little bit too far." Says Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner, whose differences with Martin constituted a four...
...Strummer of the Clash recognized a kindred spirit and invited Ely and his band to share billing on a European tour in 1979. The punk audience, Ely remembers, "threw shirts, hot dogs, bottles and panties at us. We threw back a crate of ice, and they loved it." The recorded result of the London leg of this tour, Live Shots, was never released in the U.S., although the album's reckless drive and scalding lyricism could have put a few badly needed cracks into the country Establishment...
...potential clash between the anti-war protesters and demonstrators supporting U.S. policies toward El Salvador was avoided by policy officials who scheduled the two rallies at different times and in different parts of the Capitol...
RICHARD GOODWIN IS writing a play. It is a play about the clash of two great egos, of two great ideologies. Both Galileo and Pope had strong cases, Goodwin believes, and their philosophies were in fundamental conflict. Not the kind of conflict you get at Harvard, he says, where the debate is over whether you execute the criminal or merely castrate...
...last thing he wanted, said President Reagan, was an unseemly squabble among his top foreign policy advisers. Yet that is what he got last week in the most explosive and embarrassing clash of his young Administration. Annoyed by what he saw as a challenge to his authority as the nation's chief foreign policy manager, Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly questioned a decision by his boss and even hinted that he might resign after a scant two months in office. What riled Haig was Reagan's decision to put Vice President George Bush in charge of "crisis...