Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early on, the audience has no problem pegging the players, as if they have come from an ex-jock's "as told to" book. The second-string catcher, named Boomer, is divorced by his wife during the game over the bullpen phone. He, by the way, is played by Peter Fox '72, an alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson...
Wolper's Stage 2 pains result largely from the crises that inevitably arise in coordinating a string of events at half a dozen sites involving upwards of 20,000 people, including the Presidents of France and the United States. One day last week he was found fretting with Nancy Reagan's advance team over details of a speech and nursing a severe sting administered by Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who canceled the naturalization ceremony that was to be held at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington and televised nationally. Gesell said the planners were turning the "usual dignified naturalization court...
While telecommunications experts were shocked by the magnitude of the proposal, it would merely be the latest in a string of major divestitures by ITT. Since he took charge of the company in 1979, Chairman Rand Araskog has spun off some 95 businesses worth about $4 billion. Meanwhile, he has channeled resources into such prized divisions as the Hartford insurance company and the Sheraton chain of 488 hotels and resorts. Says Herbert Goodfriend, a telecommunications analyst at Prudential-Bache: "Araskog is dismantling Harold Geneen's empire...
Miller was the first agent ever charged with espionage and the latest in a string of Government employees convicted of selling secrets. To U.S. Attorney Robert C. Bonner, the case "demonstrated graphically the KGB's effort to recruit Americans" as spies. Half the Soviet diplomatic officials in the U.S. are intelligence officers, Bonner said. At week's end the FBI supported that contention by apprehending Colonel Vladimir Izmaylov, the Soviet air attache in Washington. He had approached a U.S. Air Force officer and allegedly offered to pay for information about the Strategic Defense Initiative and other weapons projects...
...axioms of equality, then the vexing arithmetic of affirmative action. So in the landmark Bakke case, five Justices voted to invalidate a racial quota at a California medical school but five (Powell was in both camps) also approved the use of some race-conscious affirmative-action programs. In a string of decisions since then, the shifting coalitions on the court have tilted back and forth on when and how affirmative action can be applied...