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Word: baron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baron Marcel Bich, 68, the ballpoint pen and pantyhose tycoon from France, who spent $10 million over the past four campaigns, has given up at last. In Newport, where the race has been conducted since 1930, Baron Bich is remembered fondly for his distinctive white costumes and for the day he sailed off in the wrong direction at the starting line and disappeared into a fog bank. Now the old Frenchman's craft, France 3, belongs to Moviemaker Yves Rousset-Rouard, who has her back in Newport for another try. The hardiest dreamer left is Alan Bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stand By to Repel Raiders | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...atmosphere of Walt Disney's nearby Fantasyland. In the dome-shaped main hall, robots caromed around the floor. Overhead, a single-engine plane circled, dragging a sign announcing COMPAQ IS HERE. At one booth, a man dressed up like the Red Baron demonstrated a program that enables a personal computer to accept voice commands. Apple Computer rented Disneyland for an evening to entertain 12,000 of its most intimate customers, employees and friends. For the more serious, discussions were held on topics like "Surviving Success-an Industry Dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best and Worst of Times | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...Stephen Baron, 27, suffers from a ruptured disc that can cause him excruciating back pain. But Baron, an international management consultant in Washington, D.C., has found a topsy-turvy way to get relief. Four times a week he dons a pair of steel and foam-rubber Gravity Boots that each weigh three pounds and dangles from his heels from a chinning bar for five minutes. Says he: "It's a very restful, relaxing experience that eases the pressure off my lower back for hours. I can even hear my vertebrae clicking while I'm upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hang Ten | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...French literary figures, and in the post-World War II years surrounded herself with something of a Parisian Bloomsbury group that included André Gide, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali; in Cannes. Born in San Francisco of French parents, she married Frank Jay Gould, son of the railroad robber baron, in 1923; together they invested shrewdly in Riviera real estate and built the casino, and the cachet, that made their Juan-les-Pins resort famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rootless Cosmopolitan of the Age | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Cellucci 5 11 1-1 11 Pross 3-6 0-1 6 Fleming 3-9 5 5 11 Patten 9 16 1 2 19 Wood 4 16 2 2 10 Markiey 6 2 5 0 0 4 Tobin 2 6 0 0 4 Baron 0 1 0 1 0 Pearlstein 1 4 0 0 2 Hicks 0 1 0 2 0 Chipkin 0 0 1 2 1 Totals...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Cagers Overturn Brandeis, 97-68, As White Nets Career-High 17 Points | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

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