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...came back with Hurst on three days'rest, taking advantage of a rainout of Game 7 onSunday night. It was a gamble because Red SoxManager John McNamara had said Hurst didn't pitchwell on three days' rest. In his only otherappearance this season on three days' rest, heworked six innings and gave up three runs on sevenhits in Game 5 of the American League playoffs...
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...President made a dramatic proposal in Iceland. It is a major step forward, a courageous and perceptive move toward going back to a non-nuclear world -- as far as that is practical." McNamara points out that the Soviet position on SDI may be more negotiable than is often supposed. "The Soviets did not propose that we sacrifice SDI. They proposed to limit the program to what they understand to be the terms of the ABM treaty. They fear that if the Americans move SDI beyond the limits of the treaty, the U.S. would have a strategic advantage that would give...
Halberstam is clearly in search of villains. His populistic assessment / becomes particularly scathing when it concerns the rise of the accounting prodigies who took over in Detroit during the '50s. He argues that a closed world of numbers and cost accounting pioneered by men like onetime Ford President Robert McNamara (previously flayed by Halberstam for his role as Defense Secretary during the Viet Nam War) overrode the hands-on thinking that had propelled the automakers to greatness. Partly as a result, obliviousness to the implications of the oil crisis reigned, and even minimal maintenance of Detroit's sometimes ramshackle assembly...
...think you ought to have your best pitcher available to pitch three times in a seven-game series," McNamara said in announcing his decision. The Red Sox and Angels split the first two meetings, with the reach the economic status of Hong Kong orTaiwan. Aikman said China's economic improvementswill have to continue until the middle of the 21stcentury to be meaningful...