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...Justices ruled, but not of sentences. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, seemed to some experts to cut two ways. While it may comfort hard-liners by giving prosecutors a second chance to obtain a stiff sentence, its primary effect may be to further a movement toward more uniform sentencing that is backed by many liberals...
...Conn., ten of Unimation's Unimate 2000s are building ceramic molds for the manufacture of engine turbine blades. The company expects the new molds to help increase production from 50,000 to 90,000 blades a year. No less important, the robot-made molds are so much more uniform that their blades last twice as long as blades molded by humans...
Some rules have been relaxed to make ROTC students feel more at ease. Male cadets need not cut their hair short, and uniforms are required only during field exercises. But the telling development is that the students no longer feel they have to camouflage their armed forces connections. Says Senior Kim Thompson, 22, Princeton's first female cadet commander: "As a freshman, I would never dine in my eating club if I didn't have time to change out of my fatigues. Now I'll go in uniform." Thompson noted a sharp drop in the razzing...
...trumpeters wearing the ceremonial uniform of the Household Cavalry sounded a fanfare, waiters bearing silver platters of food strode into the opulent Lancaster Room of London's regal Savoy Hotel, long a favorite dining place of princes and Prime Ministers. What the 250 guests had gathered for, however, was not an affair of state but of the palate: a British firm was introducing the Churkey, a brand of bird that combines the delicate flavor of a chicken and the meatiness of a turkey...
...Japanese it means king. In Japanese baseball it means the King: Sadaharu Oh, highest-paid athlete in Asia, with an estimated career income of $7.5 million. Honored bearer of uniform No. 1 for Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants, he led the team to 13 Central League pennant titles and twelve Japan Series victories in 21 years. Sadaharu is a lefthanded power hitter with a .301 career average and 868 home runs to his credit, more than Babe Ruth's 714, more than Hank Aaron's 755. Oh, what a commotion when Oh-san, now 40, retired! Five sports...