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Dead of injuries was Louisiana Trucker Harold Bracy. Drowned in their car were Luis Zapata and Reginald Fischer, both area residents. Driving abreast was Truck Driver David Pace, hauling a load of empty beer bottles to Hartford and accompanied in the cab by his wife. "I felt my wheels going soft on me," Pace told his father later from a hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somber Prelude to the Fourth | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...smile and a conspicuous lack of talent into big bucks. Whites are not immune either. He can metamorphose into Gumby, the '50s cartoon character who has somehow aged into a carping Catskills comic; or a late-show pitchman, peddling Galactic Prophylactics and the Funeral in a Cab; or a suburban dandy, with attitudes and accent straight off the Main Line; or even an Irish priest, his brogue as thick as a County Clare mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Good Little Bad Little Boy | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...chivalry seems to have won Mr. T the hearts of inner-city youth and Nielsen families alike. His A-Team television series is the only sure hit of the early 1983 ratings season, and when Mr. T goes to Washington, as he has done for the filming of D.C. Cab, the wholesomeness gets nearly out of control. Mr. T, 31, plays one of the drivers of a bankrupt cab company in the capital, who go about solving kidnapings and helping out old ladies. But in between takes, even Mr. T needs a little sprucing up to get that exterior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 13, 1983 | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...statements make it crystal clear that when anyone is protected too much from the realities of life their skin thin their voice becomes shrill, and their roots wither, President Bok should retire as Harvard President and go to work for a year as a dishwasher or a cab driver, or some other occupation where you come into contact with the rest of humanity. Malcolm W. Berkowitz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok's Report | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...finishers has worked as a dogsled driver in Antarctica. Another has pushed a cab in Tokyo and helped lead a Japanese expedition to the North Pole. One of the younger old salts set a deep-sea diving record off his native France in 1977. An odds-on favorite was a 56-year-old Aussie who was sailing the oceans when some of his rivals were playing with boats in their bathtubs. A competitor from Eastern Europe, a Czech, has written ten books on sea adventure, and applied for political asylum hi the U.S. last August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Jeantot, Superstar of the Sea | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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