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...three straight years Kansas City waged war with the New York Yankees, trading bone-jarring slides, brush-back pitches and dramatic home runs. The Royals-Yankees match quickly became one of baseball's fiercest showdowns, but it was always the New Yorkers who went to the World Series. The Phillies were even more conspicuous failures in the stretch. In 1964 they set an unenviable standard for September swoons, blowing a big lead by winning only four games in the season's final 2½ weeks. The last time the Phillies won a pennant, in 1950, they were wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown for the Swooners | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...argue that what was best for grandfather is not good enough for immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather often never really learned English in the melting-pot school. For another, he could get a job right out of elementary school. The local political struggle over bilingual schools is fiercest in New York too. A black critic recently described the program as "a Puerto Rican employment program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Battle Over Bilingualism | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...York City, the nation's fashion capital, the $50 million-a-year modeling business has long been the arena for some of the fiercest and most feline competition in the U.S. Rarely has the competition been more savage than today, when top models can, and do, switch agencies almost as often as they change costumes, often at the drop of a harsh word or a seductive whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Come with Me to Casablancas | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...soil of our country is destined to be the scene of the fiercest fight and the sharpest battles to rid our continent of the last vestiges of white minority rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Nights of Rage and Gunfire | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...entered the language. To the serious accumulator, a collectible is any object of intrinsic value and aesthetic appeal. Forget the bottle tops. The field by definition includes such esoterica as crystal paperweights and samurai swords, but anything that can loosely be called art draws the richest audience and the fiercest competition for ownership. And the area is continually expanding as fads and fashions change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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