Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businessmen who bought minor-league teams back in the mid-1970s had a hard time turning profits. Recalls Stan Naccarato, president of the Tacoma Tigers: "Some of those owners couldn't sell $10 bills for a dime." They were happy just to kick the dirt in the dugout and scout the next Nolan Ryan...
...Baikonur space complex, near Tyuratam in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, a Proton rocket carrying an unmanned spacecraft rose on an orange and blue column of fire that illuminated the night sky. Turning lazily eastward, the rocket sent the craft off on an ambitious mission: to scout Mars and probe Phobos, one of its two tiny moons. Far below at the sprawling complex, technicians swarmed over a sister ship that is scheduled to be launched this week on a similar mission. Exulted Roald Sagdeyev, director of the Soviet Space Research Institute: "Now we can go and drink champagne...
...recalls, "My father was an Old World father in many ways. You had a series of things to do and you just did them." For Michael, they included bringing home A's, doing chores without being asked, earning his own spending money from his paper route, becoming an Eagle Scout and working hard enough to make first- string point guard on the basketball team. His mother pushed as hard as his father did. Dukakis remembers his father telling his mother when he was about 16, "If this boy doesn't slow down, he's going to get sick...
Soviet mock-bombing sorties, unlike the traditional reconnoitering flights practiced by both superpowers, have become increasingly common in the past year, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology. In the early 1980s the Alaskan Air Command intercepted only ten to 15 Soviet scout flights annually, but already this year U.S. F-15s have confronted 20 Bears. Each Soviet bomber is armed with as many as ten cruise missiles with a range of 1,500 miles; from Alaskan airspace, these weapons could reach U.S. missile sites in the Dakotas and Montana...
...first of the newcomer flock arrived in 1985 with European Travel & Life, an album of life-styles of the rich and shameless now owned by Rupert Murdoch. Writers scout the perfect half-timbered inns of Normandy, poke into isolated Sardinian coves, or try for par on a Scottish golf course. Most issues include pictures of food you can smell off the page. "We take you to places you wouldn't see," explains Editor in Chief David Breul, "and introduce you to people you wouldn't meet." There seems to be no shortage of vicarious voyagers: circulation has risen...