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Fans began paying their way into the ballpark, if only to see what Turner would do next, but the Braves were still mired in the swamp. After they lost 16 in a row in 1977, Turner furloughed the manager, put on a uniform and supervised the 17th loss himself (to Pittsburgh...
Said Allen: "Tony had Jimmy killed. I was told that Jimmy was ground up in pieces, shipped to Florida and dumped in a swamp...
...There was a swamp in left-center," said center fielder Ellen Jakovic. "If a ball had landed there it-would have been difficult to pick up." Third baseman Pat Home agreed, noting that although the infield was fine, "they were catching polywogs out in the outfield...
...LAST DECEMBER'S Atlantic interview. David Stockman referred to a "swamp of $10-20-30 billion of waste" in the Pentagon budget. To drain that swamp. Stockman proposed to President Reagan significant cuts in the defense budget. Despite his arguments, and the prospect of an ever-growing federal budget deficit, Reagan sided with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 and his grandiose plans for rearmament at a fantastic cost: $1.6 trillion over the next five years...
...dismal swamp of escalation scenarios and counterforce strategies is familiar territory to Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote a major segment of this week's cover package on the specter of nuclear war. Talbott covered the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and subsequently turned his reportage into a 1979 book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT 11. His fascination with Soviet affairs and Soviet-American relations goes back to his first Russian-language studies at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. A student of Russian literature at Yale, and then at Oxford, he worked as a 1969 summer...