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Yet the formula was fiercely opposed by some clubs, especially those who were within striking distance of divisional leaders. One unfortunate possibility: a club could amass the best overall record and be shut out of the playoffs because it did not win either half. Some baseball people also fear that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's a Whole New Ball Game | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

Greeley tracks the men to the 1978 papal elections, a maneuver that allows him to ransack his own nonfiction book, The Making of the Popes, 1978, and to use Pope John Paul II in a cameo role, praying for Cardinal Donahue's dying mistress. Along the way there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighting Irish | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

ORGANIZED LABOR HAS been on the defensive in this country for a good long time now. The unionized percentage of the work force has shrunk steadily since the 1950s, it now numbers less than a quarter of the total. New union organizing drives flounder much more often than they succeed...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Departures | 8/7/1981 | See Source »

The Hobie catamaran, which suggests a Polynesian outrigger canoe with a sail, is the creation of Nautical Designer Hobart (Hobie) Alter, 47, of Capistrano Beach, Calif. In the 13 years since the first Hobie Cat set sail, the craft has become the favorite American weekend sailboat by far and helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happiness Is a Hobie Cat | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Set in the lushly irrigated hills of Santa Barbara, the movie focuses on three characters, all half-hearted refugees from the mainstream. They haven't fled to anything else of course: it's a defensive maneuver, and the result is a certain disconnected status. Cutter (John Heard), is a vet...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

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