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...final two frames, Luongo made like his predecessor, allowing neither hits nor runs. The Eagles, meanwhile, scored once more--via two singles sandwiched around a stolen base--off Petkunas in the seventh, to make the final...
...this same July 4, 1776, issue. Both honors came as Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited our first Bicentennial special, was plunging into the closing stage of preparation for the mid-May publication of our second special, "The New Nation," dated Sept. 26, 1789. This sequel, like its prizewinning predecessor, was written as if TIME reporters were on the scene that week two centuries ago. It was a turbulent, fascinating, great week. While the tide of revolution ran high in Paris, Congress wrote history in New York City by passing the Bill of Rights and the Judiciary Act, creating...
...Berkeley or Yale Law.) He hotly pursued affirmative action: the Governor's seven-person cabinet includes two women and one Chicano; one of his California state police bodyguards is Penelope Cravens, 27, a former stewardess. Helped mightily by a $768 million black-ink bequest from Predecessor Ronald Reagan, Brown honored his pledge to hold the line on taxes for individuals while keeping state spending growth to sub-Reagan rates. He signed into law a backlog of Reagan-blocked measures: new business taxes, a liberalized marijuana law, a so-called Gay Bill of Rights...
When Powers returned to Harvard last year, his employee relations office was placed under Steiner because of problems his predecessor, William N. Mullins, had encountered in dealing with Hall. Mullins said Hall "shot from the hip" on labor matters which instead required "reflectiveness...
...materials, food, health, population, energy, trade, technology, national security-the commission paid some of the best minds in the country to wrestle with the contemporary condition. (Six more studies on various regions of the world will be completed this year.) By and large, the commission, unlike the two predecessor studies, has been able to offer no broad, self-confident program to guide America through its third century, but it has defined our situation. Of all the volumes, the most noteworthy and compelling is The Americans: 1976, edited by Irving Kristol and Paul Weaver. Kristol is Henry Luce Professor of Urban...