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Earlier, Lee had worried about his team's weakness at the middle weights and his fears were realized Friday as Cornell rolled up five consecutive victories, including pins at the 150- and 158-lb. divisions before Sean Healey's pin at 167 temporarily stopped the Big Red advance. The Crimson...

Author: By Sam Soutter, | Title: Matmen Crushed by Cornell, Columbia | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

The mob of surly shouters that formed outside the high walls of the U.S. embassy in Tehran that morning of Sunday, Nov. 4, 1979, did not seem at first to be unusually menacing. The Iranians chanted "Death to America," but demonstrations had periodically rumbled around the embassy before in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Ordeal of the Hostages | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

For starters, he faces an economic situation growing more frightening by the moment. Almost at once he will have to decide what to cut in this year's budget and where to attack the one for fiscal 1982, which is about to be submitted by Carter. These decisions will affect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

A combination of factors, coalescing at an opportune moment, led to the Gdansk revolution. Among them: wide spread discontent with unsatisfactory living conditions, relative freedom (in a Communist state, that is) for dissenting political activists, the presence of able political organizers waiting in the wings to assume leadership, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Want a Decent Life | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

Lennon was no stranger to threats on his life. As early as 1964, at the first Beatles concert in France, Lennon got a note backstage that read, "I am going to shoot you at 9 tonight." He had only lately become accustomed to the freewheeling anarchy of New York street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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