Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mickey Maspons and Scott Vierra smashed back-to-back homers in the third. After Elliott Rivera's round-tripper made it 8-1 in the top of the fifth. Falcon pitcher Roch Rhinchart took out his frustration by beaning Tony Decease on the very next pitch. Maspons stepped to the plate and boomed his second straight homer, a 400 ft., monster, to dead center...
Right fielder Chris McAndrews, who lined the ball straight at Falcon fielders in his first five at-bats, didn't take any risks on his sixth. He pulled his fourth career home run straight down the left-field line...
...marketing manager under the chief "whiz kid," Ford Vice President Robert McNamara. Iacocca officially indulged his ^ love of the punchy phrase. Earlier that year he had devised a $56-a-month credit plan for Ford buyers ("$56 for '56"); later he was intent on the Mustang's exceeding the Falcon's all-time one-year auto sales record of 417,000 ("417 by 4/17"); still later, he introduced his "shuck the losers" plan to winnow out unprofitable departments. In 1960, Iacocca took over as head of the Ford car division...
...acters complete the collection. The Pole salutes the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...
...half brother Ron works for NBC radio; his half sister Patti sings and acts; his mother Jane Wyman stars on TV's Falcon Crest; and his father's performances draw landslides of applause. So it seemed only natural when Michael Reagan, 39, recently decided to become an actor. The President's adopted son had been doing endorsement commercials in connection with his first passion, boat racing, and liked it so much he is taking classes with Acting Coach Rick Walters, whose pupils include Barbi Benton and Priscilla Presley. And what is the reaction of the leading man in the White...