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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could they ever find anything better than this?" says Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson, who is sitting outside an enclosed batting cage enjoying the sound of ash and cowhide and the sight of veterans Darrell Evans and Alan Trammell gathering scattered baseballs, like mushrooms, to reload Iron Mike. The pitching machine is run by Coach Billy Consolo, Anderson's best childhood friend, the boy who 40 years ago in Los Angeles helped him steal all of Trumpeter Harry James' baseball equipment...
Psychology is kept decently out of sight in most of the 25 horsey thrillers listed on the op-title page of Dick Francis' new entertainment. It is what goes on -- wheels turning in the murky unconscious, and all that -- when one of his characters, caught in some awkwardness, says "er . . ." That unmistakable Francis "er . . ." has got author and readers past many a potentially mushy spot and on to the good part, where the hero is gonked by hired gorillas or injected with horse tranquilizer, and then wakes up, aware that something is wrong, inside a locked steamer trunk...
...Panama' s strongman in a painful squeeze. While he easily rides out street protests, the general may step aside if Washington drops drug charges. -- Besieged by critics, Israel' s Prime Minister Shamir prepares to visit Washington. -- The pace slows in Afghan peace talks, but a settlement is still in sight. -- Welcome to Medellin, the cocaine capital of the world...
Dowling, who is Leverett House master and the author of a recent book on human sight, said advances in neuroscience could lead to new treatments for previously incurable disorders. He said blind people might someday "see" through a system of electrodes connected to the brain's visual cortex...
...future course, though, is dim. Money for permanent national teams is nowhere in sight. Nor are N.H.L. owners lining up to lend their Gretzkys to the national Olympic efforts. Right now, in fact, the owners reap far more than they sow, with more than 20 Olympic veterans about to enter their organizations. The hottest rumor: star Soviet Defensemen Vyacheslav Fetisov and Aleksei Kasatonov might join the New Jersey Devils, a sublime irony after years of Soviet state-paid shamateurism...