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...strangest "arms bazaar" that TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst had ever seen was a collection of grimy peasant tents spread out on a dusty knoll outside the town of Mahabad, in the Kurdish mountains of western Iran. There, a clientele of mercenaries and international agents milled about, examining Israeli-made UZI automatics, Chinese and Soviet AK-47s, boxes of grenades, pre-World War II Czech-made Brno rifles and spanking new U.S. Colt .45 automatics. "For the serious customer," says Van Voorst, "a salesman would casually discharge a few rounds into a nearby hillside...
Lemon thus stepped in to make his second appearance as relief manager for Steinbrenner. In 1978 Lemon was named to replace Billy Martin after Martin called Steinbrenner a convicted liar. Lemon took the Yankees to the World Series championship that year but in one of the game's strangest turnarounds, was himself ousted in June of 1979-in favor of Martin. Martin lasted until the end of the season before departing for Oakland, then Dick Howser moved onto the hot seat. A year later, after winning the most regular-season games in baseball (103, vs. 59 losses), Howser...
...troops who went to Korea got a muted version of the welcome. But then came America's longest, strangest war. From that one, in Viet Nam, the boys came home alone, mostly one by one. Sometimes they would arrive in the middle of the night, almost as if they were sneaking back. It was an abrupt, surreal transition?36 hours earlier, they had been in Nam, humping through that alien place with too much firepower and confusion and moral responsibility on their backs. Then they were plucked out of their bizarre yearlong excursion, set down in commercial jetliners, the stewardesses...
Barnett's suit is the strangest application yet of the "palimony" doctrine established by the California Supreme Court in a 1976 decision involving Actor Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola Marvin, his former live-in lover. Barnett charges that King promised to provide for all her "financial support and needs for the rest of her life in the same style and manner commensurate with the life-style of King." The suit also contends that King and her sports promoter husband Larry, whom she married in 1965, purchased a $200,000 Malibu beach house for Bar nett...
During the third game--in the strangest aspect of the final--coach Roger Martin learned the hard way about an Ivy League rule technicality which prevented him from substituting in senior co-captain and all-Ivy Terry Trumbull at his usual center spiker position...