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Baseball got off to a slow start, clouded with coke and racism. But within a week the sky cleared and everyone simply started over, the thing baseball does best of all. Bo Jackson of Kansas City and Eric Davis of Cincinnati began applying for Willie Mays' and Roberto Clemente's old jobs. That odd-shaped Minnesotan Kirby Puckett resumed clubbing homers the unlikely way he did last year. With his Ted Williams stroke, the Mets' Darryl Strawberry worked at dissociating himself from scandal...
...Vatican Bank was a shareholder in Banco Ambrosiano, and investigators claim that Marcinkus was linked to Ambrosiano President Roberto Calvi's diversion of some $1.3 billion from the bank through ten dummy Panamanian companies. While no evidence of personal gain has ever been alleged, authorities charge that Marcinkus allowed the Vatican Bank to be used by Calvi for his schemes. Marcinkus has strongly denied the accusation, and last Friday the Vatican came to his defense. In an unsigned statement, it expressed "profound astonishment" at the arrest warrants against Marcinkus and two senior officials...
Cover: Designed by Christian Piper, photographed by Roberto Brosan...
...into attendance. It became commonplace to shoot movies abroad, beyond the easy control of studios. Hollywood's civility, soured by the blacklist that the studios said did not exist, was further strained by the expulsion of Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1949 for her adulterous love affair with Director Roberto Rossellini. Ancient history now; the author must explain that adultery once was shocking, and in other chapters, that Hollywood's casual, persistent racism and anti-Semitism in the '40s accurately reflected the larger society. His tone avoids the traps of moralism and amused superiority...
...hard, nobody thinks of it ever being done by choice or for pleasure, just for the money or the hope of some, by miserable circumstances and for rotten money. Both of boxing's big camps -- those who like despising it and those who dislike loving it -- are unsurprised whenever Roberto Duran or George Foreman comes back again. But they wonder how a bright person as prosperous as Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, namesake of a blind man) could return from retirement and retina surgery to fight Marvin Hagler at any price. "Ray doesn't spend in a year what...