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...other diamond action, baseball Coach Alex Nahigian has two promising pitching talents in Rhode Island's Dan McConaghy, a 6-ft., 3-in. left-handed pitcher and 6-ft., 1-in. Joe Currier of New York, also a southpaw...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Class of '89: One of the Best Ever | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Joaquin Andujar, pitching ace of the St. Louis Cardinal staff who last week became the season's first 20-game winner, was sitting in Dodger Stadium watching Los Angeles Outfielder Pedro Guerrero taking batting practice. Andujar's thoughts about the perennial .300 hitter went beyond the manicured Los Angeles diamond back to the rocky fields of San Pedro de Macoris, a hardscrabble town in the Dominican Republic where, as a teenager, he had first hurled fastballs and curves to Guerrero. Both Andujar, 32, and Guerrero, 29, are the sons of sugarmill workers, and there was little money. But, the pitcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Harvesting Baseball Talent | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

Mitterand: Shhhhhhh! Will you keep it down. If your paranoia about that leaked to the public, they would all realize how much of a threat the strike really is. Just remember the plan. Let us distract attention from the coal, diamond and gold miners with out economic sanctions. You may not have to worry too much anyway. Cyril Ramaphosa [general secretary of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers] says only 240,000 belong to the union, and your Chamber of Mines reports that figure at only 83,000. It may not go off too well...

Author: By Charles C. Matthew, | Title: Hello Francois, It's Me, P.W. | 8/16/1985 | See Source »

Long-time Supporters are also taking about naming a baseball diamond on the Cambridge Common, apartments for the elderly at 2050 Mass. Ave., and a special Japanese peace monument after Russell, according to Gerald A. Boyle, the former mayor's aide...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Russell's Friends Pay Tribute to His Memory | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...when he led his polo team to victory at a benefit match after his horse stumbled and nearly landed on top of him. The next day he lost, but fair maiden rewarded him nonetheless. As Britons sighed over their still astonishingly golden couple, someone did happen to notice a diamond ring given to Diana by Louis Gerard, a Paris jeweler who sponsored the polo benefit on behalf of Birthright, a charity for unborn children. After a press report describing the (pounds)10,000 gift appeared on Diana's 24th birthday, a palace spokesman swiftly announced, "Given the fact that members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 15, 1985 | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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