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...years, avid readers of the New York Times took part of their favorite paper with them wherever they went -- whether they wanted to or not. The ink that went into "All the News That's Fit to Print" was notorious for its tendency to rub off onto the hands and subsequently the face, the clothes, the furniture and the walls of whoever touched it. Enterprising merchants peddled special gloves readers could wear while working their way through the paper...
...avid Harvard sports fan, it is easy to get discouraged by the dearth of crowd support at Crimson home games. Poor attendance and uninspired fans often plague even the most popular Harvard athletic events...
...that a conference will meet anytime soon. At least one of Assad's motives was to put the onus of blocking peace squarely upon Israel, should Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government balk at accepting the same terms. Shamir is alert to that danger, but he is far from avid for a peace conference...
...avid reader of our masthead, you have surely noticed the name Edward L. Jamieson. Appointed assistant managing editor in 1969 and executive editor in 1976, Jamieson has been a top editor of TIME longer than any other person, with the exception of our co-founder Henry R. Luce. Most recently, Ed has presided with great distinction over our "back-of-the-book" sections, the departments that deal with the sciences, culture and society. Having succeeded in managing a major transformation of these sections, he has now decided to retire. The occasion is a significant milestone in the history of this...
Rodriguez, who has an interest in Cali's powerful America soccer team, is an avid fan of other sports as well, including baseball. He dislikes American football, he said, "because it is too violent for my tastes." His other passion, he said, is poetry, quoting from memory the Colombian Rafael Maya, " 'No one will know the secret of this soft sadness/ As sad as the valley that turns even sadder at dark/ Like the twilight of a tardy season...