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...since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...
Being a State Department bureaucrat has its occasional unexpected rewards, including a chance recently to rain on Ted Turner's parade. The flamboyant entrepreneur and cable mogul wanted State to issue a visa to Jose Ramon Fernandez, the Cuban Vice President who oversees athletic development and competition, so that the official could accompany Cuba's delegation to the Goodwill Games in Seattle. No dice. A presidential directive bars Cuban Communist Party members from traveling to the U.S. for anything other than official business. The Goodwill Games, which have been plugged so insistently on Turner's TV outlets that some...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...
...their ears as well as their eyes will notice rhythmic differences. Chandler's sentences are usually punchier than Parker's. R.C.: "It was a very handsome house except that it stank decorator." R.P.: "I found an office finally, as close to a dump as Poodle Springs gets, south of Ramon Drive, upstairs over a filling station...
...programs and create new ones, including dropout prevention. Legislation to promote alternative certification programs, Bush's suggested method for combatting the teacher shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public support. "People were critical of Bennett's bully-pulpit role," says Ramon Cortines, superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. "But at least he kept education on the agenda. Cavazos hasn't done that...