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...evening soon someone is going to go out in his backyard and grill a steak over charcoal made from the blackjack oak Ray Tune cut this morning in the Ozarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: Outdoor Work, Very Heavy Lifting | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...Eunice Kennedy Shriver does, however. She hotfoots it down from the stands, gives Duarte a second hug and decrees that he get a medal for extraordinary heroism. She is entitled to such expansiveness. She and her husband started a summer camp for the mentally handicapped in the backyard of their Maryland home in 1961, and this was the beginning of the Special Olympics. Eunice Shriver is said to despise public speaking, but her speech was a brief, clear moment in an overlong and somewhat celebrity-clogged opening ceremony. She spoke of the "courageous spirt and the generous heart," and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroism, Hugs and Laughter | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...American Staffordshire terrier and the American pit bullterrier as well as to other varieties. The most ferocious dogs, says Pat Owens, director of the Women's S.P.C.A. of Pennsylvania, are crossbred with German shepherds or Doberman pinschers. Richard Laue of the Northern California Pit Bullterrier Association accuses these "backyard breeders" of producing unpredictable "garbage dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Time Bombs on Legs | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...scrawny, hyperactive youth, he became a body builder to attract girls. "I was no James Bond in high school," he told an interviewer. "I wanted the attention." He drove a bright red Ferrari, lived a bachelor's life in a million-dollar home and lolled around in a backyard swimming pool with a big black Z on the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zzzz Best May Be ZZZZ | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...whom the Norths had become friends after selling them a puppy. He seems to be relishing the time at home with his three children and Max, the family's Labrador retriever. Like any suburban dad on a weekend, he can be seen cutting the grass and barbecuing in the backyard. During the day his wife Betsy keeps the kitchen television tuned to the Iran-contra hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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