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...with Tokyo for the sake of setting the record straight. China's Foreign Ministry summoned Japan's ambassador to demand an earlier revision, even while officials in Peking sent word to Suzuki through informal channels that he was still welcome to visit China this fall for the tenth anniversary of the normalization of ties between the two countries...
...American Library as part of the promotional hoopla. An adaptation of Firestarter, the sixth of King's seven novels, is being filmed in Michigan, where local residents have eagerly offered to sell their homes for use in the movie's incendiary conclusion. And King's tenth book in eight years, with a hard-cover 200,000 first printing, began topping bestseller lists weeks before its official publication date...
...York the next week to talk to the people who had satellites." Today Turner's WTBS-TV, airing primarily reruns and sports, is piped into 20.4 million of the 31 million homes with cable, far more than any other cable service; in those homes it commands about a tenth of the audience through the day. Most important to Turner, WTBS reaped $18 million last year in profits, and this year, he projects, it will garner $40 million. That is a significant fraction of the earnings of any of the Big Three networks, and probably sufficient for now to sustain...
...take Pete away on the family's summer vacations. "I never set foot out of Cincinnati," Rose says uncomplainingly, "until I went off to the minor leagues." Rather than allow summer school to intrude on a baseball season, Pete's father made him repeat the tenth grade. "My dad and I lived sports together. We were playing basketball together in 1970 the night before he had a heart attack and died...
...abandoned seven Gold Gloves fielding awards out in left-field when he began moving over to first base seven or eight years ago, and now he is almost exclusively a designated hitter (a tenth man who only hits, an American League aberration). He is platooned with Rose's old comrade, 40-year-old Tony Perez, who takes the lefthanded pitchers, while Yaz gets the righthanders. "Pete is a hitting machine; Yaz is a hard-working hitter," says Perez, who collected his own 2,500th hit the other day. Yastrzemski's career batting average (.286) is the lowest...