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Parker is seeded 39th in the competition--right behind Yale Coach Tony Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Alte Achter to the Rude and Smooth | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...Targotsidis, 18, of Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung for his captors at their request, and they had presented him with a cake on his 39th birthday, which had occurred on the second day of the hijacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijack Victims: We Are Continuously Surrounded | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...John F. Kennedy Airport last week, its Cyrillic letters designating it an aircraft of the Soviet Union. Out stepped the dour and durable figure of Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, for 27 years the Soviet Union's top diplomat, who was arriving in New York to attend the 39th annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Gromyko and his entourage of about 30 began walking toward an eleven-car motorcade lined up on the tarmac. Then, spotting a band of reporters and photographers on hand for his touchdown, Gromyko turned from the group of assistants and security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plains Truth | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...mayor and the 39th President clashed during the 1980 campaign. Carter badly needed a prominent Jew to pull in the Jewish vote, but Koch had his price: a substantial federal takeover of the city's Medicaid payments and a more active pro-Israel position in a hostile United Nations. Carter was forced to concede, and a grudgingly satisfied mayor set off to stump Brooklyn and Miami Beach, telling his aides, "It's amazing what fear will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huggings and Muggings | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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