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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Berry, 69, All-America football player at Lafayette College (1924), major-league catcher during the '20s and '30s, and then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry, "he scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1972 | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Spitz was born in Modesto, Calif., but moved with his parents to Honolulu when he was two. As his mother Lenore recalls: "We went to Waikiki every day. You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." That early drive may well have been imparted by his father, who admits to being a "forceful individual." His pragmatic creed, repeated often to Mark: "Swimming isn't everything. Winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spitz | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...basis. One visitor to the embassy during the Shriver tenure recalls a telling vignette: "Little Mark Shriver, who was about four, was riding his tricycle around the inlaid-marble foyer where toys were strewn about. Phones were ringing and a secretary was giving instructions. Eunice scooped up Mark to dash to the airport. The look of disapproval that crossed the butler's face as he viewed this scene was memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Shriver's Other Running Mate | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Truthful Bitters. And so it goes, the modern guide periodically strolling cheekily into the 16th century to deliver a dash of truthful bitters, then fading out to make way for another stretch of camp biography. With admirable devotion to accuracy Leonardo's lines are limited to sentiments that actually survive in his notebooks. The result is that French Actor Philippe Leroy, who plays him, has little to do but brood burningly upon the world while lines of primordial exposition clatter about him. (Penny-pinching grandfather: "What's the good of all this schooling? It does not put bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dubbed Genius | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...weakened but did not block the flow of muons to the detectors 160 yds. away. Arnold had in effect devised a simple Morse telegraph system. By appropriately timing the intervals during which the metal was in the beam, he could, for instance, send the letter V (dot-dot-dot-dash). With a more complex system, Arnold explains, a muon beam could be sufficiently modulated to carry complete Teletype messages, voice conversations and perhaps even television images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Messages by Muons | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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