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Morgan made the last out, a gentle streamer to second base. Baltimore was within one game of the championship. Of Perez and Morgan and Rose, Phillies Coach Dave Bristol had said, "Their leaves don't fall off in the autumn," but it was a coming-of-winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Replacements | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Along with management know-how, private enterprise has introduced new marketing techniques to the hospital business. Cooper Medical Center in Camden, N.J., last January hired a plane to carry a streamer over Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia during a football game with the message: COOPER DOCTORS, YOUR OTHER WINNING TEAM. Some institutions give birthday parties for babies born in their hospitals in the hope of encouraging repeat visits. At Humana's Women's Hospital in San Antonio, which will open next summer, children visiting their newborn brothers and sisters will be entertained in a special "sibling room" equipped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prescription for Profits | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...first seconds, ground observers spotted a "streamer"-a parachute that had not fully opened-and watched in horror as the helpless soldier wearing it plummeted some 800 feet to his death. Near the landing zones, powerful updrafts blew dozens of paratroopers off course and slammed them into the ground. One crashed into a military vehicle and was killed. The wind dragged other members of the 82nd, sometimes head over heels, across the rocky terrain when they were unable to pop safety catches to release their chutes. Said Army SP/4 Daniel Maynard, 24, of New York City, who suffered a fractured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer Wind in the Mojave | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...They've forgiven us," marvels the Detroit manager. "Baseball has to be the luckiest business in the world. Whatever we do to louse it up, we can't." Johnny Pesky is chewing tobacco. Everything Sparky says, the wrynecked coach of the Boston Red Sox endorses with a streamer and a splat. "Baseball," Sparky says, "is bigger than the people running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Springs Eternal | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait of the Chairman. A white-lettered streamer read, "We mourn with deepest grief the great leader and teacher, Chairman Mao Tse-tung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Last Respects for Chairman Mao | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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