Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Salvador Sánchez, 23, World Boxing Council featherweight champion and one of the sport's best fighters; of injuries after his Porsche 928 collided with two trucks; just north of Querétaro, Mexico. A school dropout at 16, Sanchez once explained, "I found out that I liked hitting people, and I didn't like school, so I started boxing." A peppery tactician, he wore opponents down for late-round knockouts. His record: 43-1-1. "I'd like to step down undefeated," he said last month. "I'm only 23 and I have...
...staffing independent of their parent committees, especially in the House. In the Senate, 16 new Republicans were elected in 1980, and every one of them chairs at least one and more often two influential subcommittees. New York Republican Alfonse D'Amato, who is considered something of a legislative featherweight by congressional observers, chairs three subcommittees: Urban and Rural Development, Securities, and District of Columbia...
...were about to hop a slow freight into the twilight zone. Then he related the outcome: Mom-who isn't the kind of person who usually does these things-sat down and dropped the Mrs. Smith folks a line. She told them what one of their featherweight delicacies had done to her dental work, and the folks at Mrs. Smith sent her a check right back. Applause from the audience! And-"for fighting back"-the letter writer gets a gift from David Horowitz, an authentic FIGHT BACK! WITH DAVID HOROWITZ T shirt. Is everybody happy...
Daniel Bricklin, 29, and Robert Frankston, 31, a team of new-wave composers, have penned a dynamite disc that has grossed an estimated $8 million. It is not a punk-rock smash, but an unmelodic magnetic number called VisiCalc, the bestselling microcomputer program for business uses. The featherweight sliver of plastic is about the size of a greeting card, but when it is placed in a computer, the machine comes alive. A computer without a program, or "software," is like a $3,000 stereo set without any records or tapes...
Satie suffers most. His featherweight Parade owes its place in theatrical history largely to Picasso's sets and costumes. The story of carnival players trying to lure a crowd into their act is trampled by the arrival of weary soldiers from the front, still wearing gas masks. Nor is there any support from Gray Veredon's pallid, inert choreography. (Leonide Massine created the original dances.) As Harlequin, Gary Chryst works hard, but his role is never allowed to gain momentum...