Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...color shots by former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Photographer Walter looss Jr. catch all the right action, from Maury Wills airborne on the way to second to Nolan Ryan throwing smoke. But in many ways the photographs are more striking when they turn aside to the game's quieter images...
...Soviet relationship. But incipient entente, although modest, is also showing up elsewhere. Mikhail Gorbachev, heir apparent to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, will visit Britain for a week in December (see box). As Shultz arrives in Geneva in January, a U.S. Commerce official will be in Moscow for quieter talks about how to expand U.S.-Soviet trade. This week Soviet Minister of Agriculture Valentin Mesyats will begin a twelve-day tour of the American heartland; aside from Gromyko, no Soviet minister has visited the U.S. since 1979. Last week Pop Singer John Denver embarked on a concert tour of the Soviet...
Bradley possesses quieter charm, but he has acquired remarkable respect and influence in just one Senate term. His huge re-election margin this week will intensify talk of his White House ambitions, and any upcoming tax-reform battles will swing the limelight his way. But a New York political consultant thinks the former forward for the New York Knicks is unready to run. "There's not a natural move in his body, whether it's basketball or politics," says the adviser. "He works like hell, but he needs more time." Although some Democrats are still leery of Hart...
...expected if you pin such extravagant high hopes on enjoying yourself. To tell the truth, it was hard to see Dallas for the convention, and while the city seemed the apotheosis of Republicanism as long as Republicans were stomping about, it might look much different in quieter times. An obscure and special soul lies behind the reflecting towers and the crape myrtles and the still, pink mansions on Lakeside Drive. It wasn't open to the visiting public. There was no reason it should have been...
...prepare for a couple of 9 a.m. starting times at the outset of the tournament, the U.S. basketball women forced themselves into a habit of rising at 5:30. Pat Head Summitt, their quieter coach from Tennessee, complained drowsily, "I keep pouring coffee into my cereal." But the players, notably U.S.C. Star Cheryl Miller (6 ft. 3 in.) and Louisiana Tech Guard Kim Mulkey (5 ft. 4 in.), have looked more than alert. In the view of Australian Coach Brandan Flynn, the U.S. women's team is "by far the greatest ever." The Aussies were beaten...