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...Steinbrenner, 52, last week announced "a new era for the third time." And with that flourish of Rotary Club optimism, he introduced as the Yankees' new manager Billy Martin, 54. "I'll be handling all the trades," said Martin stagily, playing off the pair's old Lite beer ad. "What do you mean?" Steinbrenner blustered. "I'm handling all the trades . . . And if you don't like it, you're fired." The canned comeback from Martin, whom Steinbrenner has dumped twice before: "You haven't even hired me yet." The born-again manager...
...longest and most expensive election recount in U.S. history ends, with former Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III '52 declared the one-vote victor of last November's Illinois guheranorial race against incumbent James "Big Jim" Thompson. "I'm so happy--pass the Perrier Lite," exclaims the jubilant Stevenson. Local newspapers report that Stevenson was put over the top by two late-arriving ballots: from Adlai E. Stevenson II and Adlai E. Stevenson...
According to program notes, the intent of the script (which covers the last week of Jesus lite but ends before the Resurrection) is to portray a "human Jesus," and, by neither revering nor blaspheming, to explore the problems the Christ stars poses for modern youth. In performance, though, while the company takes some stabs in that direction emphasizing the sensual in Jesus's relationship with Mary Magdalen, for instance, and painting a startlingly sympathetic Judas-- they prove unable to maintain an even enough tone for such analysis Jesus's followers come across as suitably starry-eyed, dutifully and competently executing...
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...first two light beers, Natural Light and Michelob Light, have proved only moderately popular. Undeterred, the firm is spending some $50 million this year to launch yet a third reduced-calorie entry, Budweiser Light. Claims Anheuser-Busch President Dennis Long: "We are starting to see some chinks in Miller Lite's armor...