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...competition goes, "the top collegiate level is just as good as any international junior competition," added Stanley, whose credits include winning Brazil's Banana Bowl last year and placing high in both the Junior Wimbledon and the Junior U.S. Open tournaments...

Author: By Frank M.K. Tse, | Title: U.S. Olympic Tennis Team Tryouts Next Test for Three Harvard Netmen | 5/18/1984 | See Source »

...anywhere else in the country," he said. As for the government campaign against the rebels, he declared that the situation "has been brought under control." The curfew has been cut back to the period from dusk to dawn, and buses and private transportation are once again permitted. President Canaan Banana, who is a member of the Matabele tribe, assured Zimbabweans that the curfew that still existed in some parts of the province would "not last a day longer than necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: Terror in Matabeleland | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

More recently, the 1960s featured decoration with protest banners, with paint becoming a leading instrument of destruction. A recent observer reported decoration with banana peels...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: 100 Dears of Solitude | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...make matters more complicated, an individual's susceptibility to these factors depends on inherited traits. Thus, while a fatty diet and smoking may mean early death for one man, another can puff away, gorge on steaks and banana splits and still live to a ripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Eggs and Butter | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

Such figures have raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caribbean: Machine Guns in Paradise | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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