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Frazier tells us that tumbleweed came from Russia, that Nicodemus, Kans. (pop. 50), was founded by black settlers in 1877, that during the dust-bowl years of the mid-'30s storms called "dusters" were identified by color -- brown from Kansas, red from Oklahoma, dirty yellow from Texas and New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lighting Out | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

The future appears bright for schools like T.M.G. In 1990 Keio University of Tokyo plans to open Keio Gijuki New York Gakuin, a school for grades 9 through 12, on the campus of Manhattanville College, north of New York City. The setting will be more cosmopolitan than bucolic Sweetwater. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rising Sun over Sweetwater | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

A vacationing family meets a boy in the Blue Ridge Mountains willing to take a group snapshot. He turns out to be a deaf-mute astrological visionary. High up in the Smokies, the menopausal mother of the family keeps hearing a baby crying out in the woods. After she leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bowing Out with a Flourish | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

As the summer travel season gets under way, many Americans are suddenly feeling nostalgic for the airfares they paid just a vacation or two ago. Since January, ticket prices have risen an average of more than 15%, inducing a form of sticker shock in consumers who have grown accustomed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Airline Giants: The Sky Kings Rule the Routes | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

The team's strategy angered Beaulieu even more--Harvard had a deliberate game plan, which focused on setting up the open shot and placed no emphasis on the transition game. This didn't, and couldn't, appeal to talented athletes accustomed to displaying their impressive skills. Beaulieu claimed that most...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: Reardon's Legacy | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

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