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...imperiled is Chicago's enduring sense of superiority over Los Angeles. Asserts Joseph Harmon, president of Chicago's convention and tourism bureau: "The bottom line is people know they can come here and still make a buck." Sniffed Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko: "So, a buffalo chip is bigger than a diamond." But at least one Chicagoan has already adapted to reality. Three years ago Tricia Fox opened the Second City Day School. Now she has seven and calls them the Fox Day Schools. "I didn't want to change the name every time the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Third City? | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...residents have become victims of China's bitter feud with Viet Nam. Five people have been killed and 38 wounded by Vietnamese fire. In addition, according to Chinese officials in the Guangxi region, the Vietnamese have laid mines, damaged crops and on occasion sent bundle-toting water buffalo laden with leaflets and other propaganda across the border. Liang Xinghan, 26, a tractor driver in Pingmeng, says that he was wounded in the thigh by an enemy sniper last year. "I don't know why the Vietnamese shot me," he says. "I didn't oppose them or give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Enmity at Friendship Pass | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...April, Chinese officials claim, 120 shells fired from across the border landed in Pingmeng. Townspeople reported that a month ago 13 rounds of Vietnamese rifle fire struck the town. Many fled to nearby shelters within the valley's limestone walls. The only casualty that day was a water buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Enmity at Friendship Pass | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...Buffalo Bill is one of a handful of new series launched by the networks during the normally fallow summer season. The ratings for the half-hour show (Wednesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.) have been encouraging (it finished in the Nielsen top 30 shows in each of its first three weeks), the critical reaction has been appreciative, and it is a strong candidate for renewal in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Truly Unsentimental Cad | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...Mary Hartman, and is currently appearing as a harried computer scientist in the movie WarGames. "I happen to think I do villains well," says Coleman. "I do them differently. I'm realistic." Indeed, unlike the sneering, comic-book persona of Larry Hagman's J.R., Coleman's Buffalo Bill is an unsettlingly familiar figure, not a caricature. "Everybody knows a Buffalo Bill," notes Tartikoff. "I know several, a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Truly Unsentimental Cad | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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