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...night? Or when they expanded the major leagues from 16 teams to 26? Or the schedule from 154 games to 162? (Did Roger Maris break Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs by hitting 61--but in eight extra games?) Babe Ruth--bah! Some truly venerable curmudgeons share Ring Lardner's view that they really ruined the game when they introduced the jackrabbit ball during the Babe's heyday to make home runs easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: New but Not Necessarily Improved | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...accomplices, Philippine Immigrants Primitivo Cayabyab and Pedro Quito, would help pilfer the goods from Navy ships and warehouses where they worked. The Agustins then used fictitious shipping companies to transport the machinery to London. Agustin's brother Edgardo is said by the Customs Service to have managed the ring's East Coast operations. MILITARY Acquittal for a Spy Fund Manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Jul 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...name was listed in the Social Register and her ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but Sydney Biddle Barrows, 33, achieved prominence last year by another route. She was arrested on charges of running a 20-girl, $1 million-a-year prostitution ring from a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Dubbed the Mayflower Madam by the press, Barrows had been as thrifty and practical as her Pilgrim forebears could have wished, claiming 60% of each call girl's earnings. Last week, after plea bargaining, the trim blond pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution. The surprisingly solicitous arrangement allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Jul 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Jackson contends that the careless handling of supplies made it possible for a recently discovered international ring of dealers in aircraft parts to acquire sophisticated components from the Kitty Hawk. Seven people, including two Navy men, have been charged by the Justice Department with smuggling at least $5 million worth of spare parts for F-14 fighter planes to Iran. Six of the defendants are natives of the Philippines, the other is an Iranian. Jackson told investigators that he became suspicious of one of the defendants, who served on the Kitty Hawk as an aviation storekeeper, because the man would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Side: Waste and fraud in the Navy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...offering all sorts of land deals, tax breaks and worker-training grants. Minnesota's Rudy Perpich said his package of inducements was worth $1.3 billion to the company. To remind GM's executives of its lures, Missouri erected a billboard in downtown Detroit that read GIVE US A RING. Another sign said CHICAGO WANTS YOU. Celebrities were enlisted as well. Boxer Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini touted Youngstown, Ohio, and Golfing Great Arnold Palmer praised Westmoreland County, Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM Picks the Winner | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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