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...spirit of fraternity that lends dash to his portrait gallery of athletes in Neil Leifer's Sports Stars (Doubleday; 256 pages; $35). The longtime photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME does justice both to basketball's Nate Archibald airborne and to baseball's Casey Stengel in repose. He gets deep inside the tangles of the football field. And when he photographs Mary Lou Retton, he catches her in mid-bounce, all flags flying. Athletics were always like this, but before Leifer, athletic photojournalism...
...snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here. At the age of 54, it seems, Mickey Mantle...
Staff Writer Richard Stengel, who incorporated the bureaus' vivid reports in his story, immersed himself in books and papers on the subject by criminologists and social scientists. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson supervised the project. Says he: "It was important to amass as much research as possible. Black-on-black violence is a very sensitive subject, one that black leaders are only now willing to talk about." White agrees: "I thought it was time to bring it out of the closet. It's time, long past time, for the killing to stop...
...those opposing greyhound use argue that it is inhumane, that researchers sometimes acquire research animals by questionable means, and that surplus greyhounds should be used as house pets, said Elizabeth B. Stengel, a legislative analyst at Boston University Medical School...
...long been obscure. The age of the previous oldest hull was a thousand years younger than this one, and suggests that nautical technology in ancient times changed glacially. Says Bass: "These bones of the wreck push back our knowledge of Mediterranean shipbuilding by nearly a millennium." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington