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...Super Bowl trophy was mounted this year in the entranceway. Two weeks ago, after they defeated the Bengals in Cincinnati, 34-3, the Browns players came into work and stopped. It was the same picture, except for one thing. It had grown to the size of a billboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Success Story of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...mountainside overlooking Medellin, Colombia, some of South America's poorest families have been uprooted from the garbage dumps where they once foraged and deposited in 4,000 neat, red-tiled homes. At the entrance to the housing development, a large billboard proclaims the author of this generosity: PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, a local billionaire who has been called one of the world's richest men. Escobar is also one of the world's richest fugitives. Last week a federal grand jury in Miami announced that Escobar and four other Medellin tycoons had been indicted because of the source of their immense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine's Kings | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Here I am/ Just like I said I would be," sings Cyndi Lauper on True Colors, the recent follow-up to her 1983 debut solo album. And now, just as she hoped, the True Colors title ballad is No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart, while the album has reached No. 8. The flamboyant singer, who recently posed for a saucy array of promotional shots, is in Italy working on a new video to keep the record rolling. Good as Lauper is at grabbing the eye on a half shell, her artistic rival Madonna found a way to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 3, 1986 | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Sure I can...for example: the billboard provision. If we get a higher speed limit, we also lose our nation's billboards. That's a serious infringement on our rights...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...Well, the right to know. For example, when I'm driving south on 1-95, I often ask myself, 'Am I only 1,000 miles from South of the Border?' That's a question only a billboard can answer...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

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