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Percy faces a rough challenge from five-term Congressman Paul Simon, a southern Illinois liberal. Simon is known for his trademark bow ties and hornrimmed glasses and for his effectiveness on Capitol Hill: he had more of his bills passed this year than any other member of the House. Percy, although chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee since 1980, has never pushed through a major bill of his own. Polls show the candidates in a virtual dead heat. Simon has won over many black and Jewish voters who in the past had supported Percy in his more liberal incarnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Embattled Heartland Republicans | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COUNTRY: From Heartland to Heartthrobs | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Edna Spaulding, played with wonderful strength and control by Sally Field, is a sheriff's wife who suddenly finds herself a widow when her husbands is shot by a drunken black youth. Edna, long accustomed to playing the deferential wife, must bow assume the responsibilities of keeping her family together in a decidedly masculine world of bank mortgages and cotton farming...

Author: By Molly F. Cliff, | Title: Local Heroes | 10/5/1984 | See Source »

...Allston resident escaped serious injury when his bicycle collided with a car at the intersection of Linden and Bow streets yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Accident Injures Biker On Bow Street | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...Organization, the U.S. employed a tactic last week that one UNESCO official called "psychological warfare." A confidential study by the Congress's General Accounting Office that harshly criticizes UNESCO was leaked to the press. The report charges the agency's Senegalese director, General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, with large-scale inefficiency and mismanagement. Said M'Bow: "I was elected by all the 161 member states to head the organization . .. and not one of them can force me to hand in my resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: More UNESCO trouble | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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