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...Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder 63 miles away.) The nuts-and-bolts primer it will...
...grand slams), 6 ft. 4 in. of height--and now.810 on the Hall of Fame ballot. That number represents 346 out of a possible 425 votes and makes Willie McCovey only the 16th player to enter the hall in his rookie year of eligibility. But "Stretch" always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. But Yankee Slugger Roger Maris, whose 61 homers in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's immortal...
...what good is effected in pointing that capacious intelligence at fast-moving targets? Why find the missing piece if even the visible pieces will vanish in a shot? Ask Joe Kraft, and he would have said that the good lies in doing it, in using the mind to grasp everything the world can throw at it, baseballs to missiles, because that is how the mind protects the body, protects itself. Understanding is protection. More: understanding is forewarning. More: understanding is life. The individual column does not count, because a column is not supposed to exist alone. A columnist looks...
Some combination of measures seems needed, and fast. Anything that affects matters ranging from the pace of oil exploration to the availability of slides in Chicago playgrounds must be taken very seriously. The nation, once proud of its frontier individualism, has gradually adopted a no-risk mentality based on the belief that if anything bad happens, someone should be made to pay. But as damage awards lose any connection to actual damages and insurance companies flail around anxiously, that someone is turning out to be everyone. --By George J. Church. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington, B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta and Michael Riley/Los...
...always been a litigious people. But there does seem to be a rise in the number and size of liability suits facing every type of company, from soccer-ball makers to cigarette manufacturers. From 1977 to 1981, the number of civil lawsuits in state courts grew four times as fast as the population of the U.S. And in the decade between 1974 and 1984, the number of product-liability suits in federal courts expanded 680%. The first million-dollar verdict did not occur until 1962, but there were 401 in 1984, according to Jury Verdict Research Inc., a private group...