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...playground, where the move counts as much as the basket, "winners' out" is the rule. Score the hoop, keep the ball. Win the game, maintain the court. Hold out until dark if you can, or at least until twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. J Is Flying Away | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...home pale and unspeaking. A neighborhood friend had inexplicably vanished. "It turned out," King later recalled, "that the kid had been run over by a freight train while playing on or crossing the tracks (years later, my mother told me they had picked up the pieces in a wicker basket)." To this day the author has "no memory of the incident at all; only of having been told about it . . ." But at the age of eight he had a very accessible dream: "I saw the body of a hanged man dangling from the arm of a scaffold on a hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...young woman from Artesia, Calif., whose childhood was painful. She put herself through college and became a schoolteacher in Whittier, Calif., where she caught the eye of young Nixon. After a long courtship, she decided to accept the diamond engagement ring he sent to her classroom in a May basket. And she has stuck by him ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie Nixon's Tribute: A daughter's view of Pat Nixon | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...completes each task, she crosses it off of a list which she keeps in her pocket. Her diligence is most admirable--never will you see anyone give a better demonstration of how to fold a basket-full of clothes in five minutes or less...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: A Great 'night Mother | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

Seoul's Kimpo Airport was bright with flowers and women in traditional Korean hanbok dresses welcoming visitors to the tenth Asian Games, which began last week. Suddenly a bomb exploded in a metal trash basket outside the arrival area, ripping into crowds as they loaded baggage into cars and killing five Koreans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Show Must Go On | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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