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...last week's news from the Labor Department is any indication, the longest economic expansion in peacetime history still has plenty of life left in it. The unemployment rate dropped in April from 6.6% to 6.3%, its lowest level since early 1980. Even with 7.5 million Americans still jobless, the economy is "much stronger than anyone thinks," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of Shearson Lehman Bros...
...compared to anybody," he says. "And I especially don't think it's right to be compared to Willie Mays. But sometimes it does make me feel good." They met once; nothing cataclysmic was said. Mays blithely recommended the opposite field. Not long ago, Rose says, "Eric hit the longest opposite field home run I've ever seen. I've never seen a player with more raw talent." Of course, Rose has only been looking for 25 seasons...
...snapped the new leader of America's foremost collegiate football power, "I'm the president!" And he strode from the room. "That happened only once," recalls the 69-year-old Hesburgh, who is now preparing for his retirement; it will come next week, after a reign that is the longest and, by some accounts, the most distinguished of any major U.S. university head. The school he took over in 1952 was, according to Hesburgh's own blunt estimate, "ordinary." Since then...
...Lindow and Panopoulos applied for permission to treat potatoes with ice-minus. They failed to anticipate Rifkin. A former antiwar activist with a fertile imagination and a knack for using the bureaucratic process, Rifkin organized what may be the longest-running regulatory battle ever. One of his victories: a 1984 temporary injunction against Lindow and Panopoulos issued by Federal District Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame...
Field hockey player Leelee Groome also scored only a single goal. But Groome has the longest ground ball in the league. And when she lifts one in the air, heads duck...