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...error loaded the bases, and after Stewart fired two strikes by Tiger Rod Shepard, his next pitch bounced inevitably askew. Joe DeGeorge scored the winning...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tigers Upset Batsmen in Extra Innings | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...Mark Lockenmeyer, Chris Cascia (10), and Rod Shepard...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tigers Upset Batsmen in Extra Innings | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...carrying on the night of her death would have demonstrated the company's carelessness. Lawyer Gerald Spence claimed in court that Silkwood wanted to "tell the public" that a startling 40 Ibs. of plutonium was missing from the plant. Spence also said she had X rays of fuel rods that had been retouched by the company to conceal faulty seals. Her point: a defective rod could cause a catastrophic accident. The family also intends to call former company employees, including a plant manager, to testify to these and other mishandlings of the fuel. The witnesses are expected to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Poisoned by Plutonium | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Warriors' sin may lie not in its content so much as in the way it attracts crowds like a lightning rod. It is not particularly violent, and what violence there is is curiously abstract and unemotional. More gore can often be seen on the television screen, and any number of films-Marathon Man, Death Wish, just about any Peckinpah film and certainly A Clockwork Orange-have contained far more stomach-churning brutality. Indeed, The Warriors' director, Walter Hill, goes out of his way to expunge any feeling of genuine menace or racial animosity. The gang called the Warriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...mind boggling. You can have a show that reaches 14 million or 15 million households, and it may be ranked in the top 40. Somehow or other, it's written up as a potential miss, which is something I find rather extraordinary. But television is like a lightning rod; I don't think it's any more competitive than it's been. It just may appear that way outwardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Talking Heads: A Triptych of Network Chiefs on Thrust, Appeal, Consensus, Risks, Holes, Fun, Meaning and . . . | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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