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...ring affair. Reagan, whose job rating has dropped 12% since January, gave campaign speeches to 7,600 in Waterloo's Cattle Congress auditorium (only the Rolling StoneMn 1981, drew a bigger crowd) and to 7,000 more in Des Moines. Like most lowans, Democrat Sam Kauffman, a barber in Audubon (pop. 2,841), got a kick out of all the national attention. Said he "We don't get the chance for that kind of limelight very often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going for a Knockout | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...polite nods here and there. His sport is as obscure as ever. Even though the U.S. has won 16 speed-skating gold medals, including the first one, by Charles Jewtraw in 1924, few Americans are stirred by so much gliding and arm swinging. Terry McDermott, the skating barber of 1964, and Sheila Young, a highlight of 1976, came around (and around) without cutting any lasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear the Way For the U.S.A. | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...species by looking at the sex organs of plants (and how he inspired Charles Darwin's grandfather to write lyric poems about plants' amours). We learn how fastidious anatomists preserved for centuries their ignorance about the true form of the human body by relegating the unsavory dissection to barber-surgeons, while they read about the body in books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovering Heroes | 1/5/1984 | See Source »

...lucky to have Grant," North said. Cleary's barber would agree. At Bright Center Northeastern 1 0 1--2 Harvard...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Take a Little Off the Top, 4-2 | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

...Jets got seven points in each of the first two quarters--the first on a 34-yard interception return by linebacker Lance Mehl and the other on a one-yard plunge by Marion Barber...

Author: By From WIRE Reports, | Title: Jets' Fourth-Quarter Rally Produces 31-28 Victory | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

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