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...benefit from President Reagan's 25-per-cent tax cut, several of his fellow and less-well-paid baseball unionists suffered financially this summer. And most of them didn't even understand the tricky sticking issue of free-agent compensation. "Don't ask me. You'll have to call Marvin Miller," said Toronto Blue Jay player representative Alvis Woods in response to questions during the strike...
...were among the first of 381 Cuban refugees ordered freed by Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob of Atlanta. Of the more than 125,000 Cubans who flooded onto the shores of south Florida last year, some 1,800 still languish in the Atlanta prison. Two weeks ago, Judge Shoob ran out of patience. Calling the Cubans "people" and "not numbers," he ordered federal officials to release 381 who were imprisoned simply because they had entered the U.S. without the proper papers. Government lawyers did not object to freeing the 155 who had already been cleared by the Immigration and Naturalization...
More bad news for Michelle Triola Marvin, 46. In July, the former live-in mate of Actor Lee Marvin, 57, was fined and placed on probation for shoplifting some bras and a sweater from a Beverly Hills store. Then last week the California Court of Appeal reversed the landmark 1979 Los Angeles Superior Court decision that ordered Marvin to ante up $104,000 in palimony-equivalent to $1,000 a week for two years, the most that Triola, who now describes herself as a public relations agent, had made in her career as a lounge singer. The appeals court upheld...
...pairs of $57 Martini Osvaldo metallic sandals in a single day. Says Magnin Buyer Laura Rosenthal: "I've never seen anything come close to that record-not even when go-go boots were in." At Saks in Chicago, the gold rush has been similarly frantic. Says General Manager Marvin Cooper: "We haven't pulled the metallics together in one department yet, because we can't keep them in stock long enough...
...alternative-perhaps a permanent one -to the national pastime. Sure enough, at 5:45 last Friday morning, after a fierce 16-hour bargaining session, Federal Mediator Kenneth Moffett appeared before reporters in Manhattan and wearily announced the result: "It's over." Nodded an equally drawn, but clearly pleased, Marvin Miller, head of the Players Association: "It's a new day. We have indeed reached an agreement." Summed up Ray Grebey, the owners' representative: "It was a victory for nobody, a loss for nobody. It was a good collective-bargaining agreement for everybody...