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...fair-haired Englishman, Steve Cram, 24, was running the world off its feet with three world records in 20 days. That orange dervish Boris Becker, 17, confirmed his Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first...
...publisher, fresh off the plane from Johannesburg, breezes into the office and props his feet on a desk. "The Colonel," as he likes to be called, discusses upcoming story ideas. Should next month's cover feature a new machine gun, which the Colonel himself tested in South Africa? What's the latest battlefront news from Afghanistan and El Salvador? The executive editor is there, but not the small-arms editor or the sniping-countersniping editor. The meeting soon breaks up, but not before the Colonel warns a staffer headed for Central America, "Be careful down there...
...than normal college course load that is long on engineering and math. Sleep, not surprisingly, is regarded as a luxury. To stay awake in class, cadets who begin dozing off in their seats are permitted to stand up by their desks. After lunch, entire classes are sometimes on their feet by the final bell...
...many staffers, the firings underscored their fear that the loyalties of Sauter, 50, and Joyce, 52, no longer belong to the news division but to Black Rock, the nickname for CBS Inc.'s Manhattan headquarters. According to their critics, the two men have their feet firmly on the corporate ladder and are eager to advance upward. Though both spent much of their careers as journalists (Sauter worked as a newspaperman for nine years, while Joyce began as a radio reporter), they made their reputations in management positions. Sauter served as the network's chief censor and head of the sports...
...Gene Tenace may have been unlikely World Series heroes in their day, but fate never rolled out a green carpet for anyone before. "When I stepped into the batter's box," said Landrum, who observed his 31st birthday on the Series' second off day, "I looked at my feet and couldn't believe they were mine." On top of everything else, he is from Joplin...