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...givin' 'em, folks, Tender Vittles." Spielberg's noncombative vitality infects everyone he works with. Says Richard Donner: "Steven is over your shoulder the whole time. He always bows to you because you're the director, but he's got so many good ideas that you want to grab every one of them. It's as if he's 17 going on 18. Next year he's going to learn to drive...
...playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In the women's division, where Shirley Temples turn into Gloria Swansons overnight, glory would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final...
...little bit when you have the gun and the grenade there. Take it away." Once Traugott entered the lavatory just after Castro's companion, who called himself "Said," came out. Says Traugott: "He forgot his gun on the top of the toilet. Even if I tried to grab it and do something, it would have been total chaos, lots of people would have been killed. I just walked out and into the cockpit and said, 'Come here, will you? You left something in there.' You should have heard them laugh." In Beirut, Traugott was taken all over the city. Says...
...White House strategy last week was simply to grab the public's attention. Explained one Administration adviser: "We wanted four to six days of exposure with Reagan reinforcing a simple, straightforward idea: tax reform is pro- fairness, pro-family and pro-growth. Tax reform is Reagan." Reagan will keep making his pitch in coming weeks, but will lay off during the summer and fall, while Congress works its unpredictable way with the plan. By September, at the earliest, crucial committee votes may be at hand, and the President will return to center stage. If he does not like what Congress...
...biggest victories came in relief. At Cornell he pitched 5-1-3 innings as Harvard stormed back from a 3-0 deficit to grab a 5-4 victory. At Dartmouth, he struck out 10 and walked none in six shutout innings as the Crimson rallied for a 2-1 decision...