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Thousands of other Ticos, as Costa Ricans call themselves, danced joyously in the streets. It was not Carnival, however, but a bash celebrating another honest election in a part of the world where political honesty and elections are all too rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica Shows How, Again | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Mitch Reese, playing seventh, blanked Jim Little, and Clark Bain ousted Peter Thayer 3-1 at the eighth seed. The number nine man, Chuck Elliott, emerged victorious from a grueling five-match marathon with Evan Bash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Desaulniers Leads Racquetmen in Win Over Williams, 7-2 | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

Elliott topped Bash, in spite of the Williams athlete's exceptional physical condition. Ford said, "That Bash is amazing. He runs three miles before practice and is all ready to play another five-game match." He added, "When Elliott got off the court you could have pushed him over by blowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Desaulniers Leads Racquetmen in Win Over Williams, 7-2 | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

...Though United's headquarters is in Chicago, Carlson lives in Seattle and commutes between the two cities. He was the driving force and idea man behind the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, a turning point in the city's development. Not only did the $100 million bash turn a profit of $500,000, but it endowed the city with many permanent buildings, including the Cultural Center and the Space Needle, a spidery, 607-ft. structure that is Seattle's Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Those Movers Who Shake Seattle | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...science and absolute values" sponsored by Moon's Unification Church. After an effusive introduction by Australian-born Neurophysiologist and Nobelman Sir John Eccles, Moon urged his guests, in barely understandable English, to express their beliefs fully. Housing, feeding and entertaining the academics plus their spouses for the brainy bash was costing about half a million dollars, but Moon was unperturbed. He viewed it as a way "to meet and examine the scientists and the professors to use in later days." He has big plans to found a university, it seems, and he figures, "If I pay professors a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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