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...control of the earlier series, personally approving every actor cast as an FBI agent to be sure he "looked the part." The ensemble includes a black recruited from military intelligence, played in the pilot by Charles Brown and afterward by Harold Sylvester; a smashing-looking woman psychologist who teaches pistol-marks-personship (Carol Potter); a salon-coiffed, hip-talking pretty boy (Joseph Cali); and a sarcastic, ever grinning preppie athlete (Richard Hill). Their boss, portrayed by Mike Connors, star of Mannix (1967-75), is a tough-but-sensitive older man whose marriage is imperiled by the demands of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Always Get Their Man | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...which occurred when he crashed into outfield walls while chasing flyballs; of a respiratory illness; in Palm Springs, Calif. In 1941, his first full season, Reiser at 22 led the National League in batting (.343), slugging (.558), runs scored (117), total bases (299) and triples (17). The next year, "Pistol Pete" was smoking along at a .380 clip when he crashed into a centerfield wall while running after a line drive. He knocked himself unconscious, and by the end of the season his batting average dropped to .310. In 1947 he again crashed into an outfield wall, with such force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 9, 1981 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Communists or withdraw from the Warsaw Pact could bring on a Soviet invasion, "so we're not about to violate those principles." But even if the Soviets did invade, he added, they could not force the Poles to work: "Someone can make me do something with a pistol to my head, but I can destroy ten other things when they are not looking." The stocky union leader also revealed his secret for holding up under the pressures of his position: "Life is so hard and complicated that one must try to smile even in the toughest moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Shaky Command for the General | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...insecure or unrewarding, then the worker experiences a strangely intimate and fundamental sense of betrayal, a wound very close to the core. Or perhaps the wound is his discovery that the core is empty. And with that discovery, he may resort to a pistol, a length of rope or a fistful of pills, leaving behind a note: "Burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Burnout of Almost Everyone | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...students got to talking about brothels. She told them that she'd never seen one, but had always wanted to. The students agreed to take her, and they went to a house at the edge of the city. A large man in uniform entered with a pistol in his holster. He was the chief bodyguard of the dictator of Guatemala. Looking around the room he saw Jane and said, 'That's the one I want.' The students tried to protest. 'This is a tourist,' they said. The proprietor offered him one of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Gentle Despair | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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