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...actual winds were detrimental, the winds of fate seemed to favor the Huskies with three minutes left. Quarterback Jim O'Leary dusted off his throwing arm and completed seven of eight passes--including an eight-yard toss to Brooks Estadt in the end zone--in an 80-yard, 50-second touchdown drive which closed the gap to three points...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Seeing Combat in the War of the Winds | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...hour brunch, the gray clouds have not lifted. Smiling, Franklin and Chinn walk down the street toward the shopping mall, arm in arm, and then, hand in hand...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Integrating the Gay and Straight | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

...advocate of judicial restraint, Bork has not been terribly successful at exercising personal discipline in recent years. He regularly smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, despite promises to himself to quit. After breaking his arm in an accident on icy steps outside his home two years ago, he began losing control of his now Falstaffian weight. A series of exercise machines -- a rowing machine, cross-country machine, stationary bicycle -- sit broken or largely unused in his attic. Bork has taken up poker in a floating game that regularly includes Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Education Secretary William Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long and Winding Odyssey | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...public alarm over crime has risen, the government has responded. Minister of Justice Frederik Korthals Altes last February won overwhelming parliamentary approval for a $40 million omnibus crime bill that calls for hiring more police and creating a criminal-investigat ion arm to assist municipal detective bureaus. Meanwhile, Housing Minister Nijpels announced the construction of 3,000 jail cells to supplement the 5,000 currently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands Tolerance Finally Finds Its Limits | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...politely arm-twisting United employees, whose campaign is limited so far to Denver's airport, wear green-and-white lapel pins bearing the acronym TORQUE, which stands for "Try Our Real Quality United Experience." But on the hidden backside of the pin is a more provocative symbol. It depicts a jet, similar to those in Continental's fleet, with a large screw embedded in its gold-painted tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: May I Twist Your Arm, Sir? | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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