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...baseball is a delicate matter. Pitchers, especially, grip the edges of their careers like the seams of the baseball, and dig in their fingernails. For example Gaylord Perry, 44, of Seattle, whose next victory will be his 308th, bad news for Charles ("Old Hoss") Radbourn, about to be bumped to 13th after 91 years. Jim Kaat, 44, of the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, is approaching his 25th big-league campaign, dabbling with a new pitch, trying his hand as a submariner. The most enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spray Hitting in the Spring | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...known as "bennies," after a British TV character who is a decent, hard-working but thickheaded farmer. When military commanders reportedly banned the sobriquet, the troops quickly devised a new one: "stills," short for "still bennies." The natives, in turn, refer to the soldiers as "squaddies," an archaic British dig at military men of low rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: A Melancholy Anniversary | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...makers of Sanka are waging the same war. Anspach had sold 525,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly before he was stopped. (Parker Brothers sells more than 2 million of the original each year.) He now hopes to get his games back on the shelves, as well as to dig up the buried ones. After that? He has already developed Anti-Monopoly II and-oh yes-he plans to proceed with an antitrust suit against Parker Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Flunked Tests | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...authority in all branches of the law, noted for the clarity of his written opinions. Kahan is a withdrawn and deeply religious man: he attends synagogue regularly, eats only kosher food, and conscientiously observes the Sabbath. But in 1981, when the Chief Rabbinate tried to stop an archaeological dig in Jerusalem on religious grounds, Kahan put science first and helped to give the project the green light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Judicious Choices | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Republicans pleaded with Weinberger for help in making the inevitable excisions. "The worst thing we can do is dig in our heels," warned Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana. But Weinberger's rigidity was reinforced by the President himself, who dispatched a statement to his beleaguered Defense Secretary advising him to tell Congress that "we have reached the bone and that any further cuts would do severe damage to our national security." Republican leaders were forced to come up with their own suggestions. Warner proposed reducing the size of the armed forces by up to 7%. Senate Budget Committee Chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clashes and Compromises | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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