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To Los Angeles this year, the old catcher Rick Dempsey brought lessons and morals from two consecutive basement jobs at Baltimore and Cleveland. With a double here and there, in the dugout, anywhere, Dempsey has been a triumph. "My child, my baby," he says of the rookie pitcher Tim Belcher...
Only three days after the change of KGB chiefs, the leadership was reshuffled in the most populous of the country's 15 republics. Vitali Vorotnikov, 62, premier of the Russian Republic (population: 144 million), was kicked upstairs into the presidency, making way for Alexander Vlasov, 56, a Gorbachev protege, to...
Vladimir Kryuchkov, 64. Like Gorbachev a protege of Yuri Andropov, he has served since 1974 as head of the KGB's foreign-intelligence operation. Kryuchkov was named to his late mentor's longtime job as chief of the KGB over several more senior officials. Promoted.
He likes to brag that he was the only white guy in Percy Sledge's backup band, but this nonpreppie protege of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond devised the strategy that knocked out Bush's opposition by Super Tuesday. Atwater, 37, is the type of tactical genius who can live...
In order finally to make Tucker, he formed a partnership with his sometime protege, George Lucas, a producer gifted in what the director lacks: story sense and budget sense. The result is a film consistent narratively, confident stylistically and abounce with the quaint quality that animated both the hero and...