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...still no piece of cake. The Soviets orbited Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in April 1961, when a new young President was getting ready to prove what a tough guy he was at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Adding insult to injury, the news began to trickle out when John Kennedy had just tossed the first baseball of the season in Griffith Stadium, and he was eating a good old American hot dog. In the perverse ways of a frontier, the discouraging news would goad Kennedy and the country to achievements beyond their dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pioneers in Love with the Frontier | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...Special talent is icing on the cake," says Stephen J. R. Cass '87, business manager of the Krokodiloes. "We do have guys that do tap-dancing, for example, and others have very good stage presence...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Trying to Make it Into a Harvard A Capella Group | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...fish, a central part of the house shield, became Cabot's mascot after the Loeb Drama Center donated a 15-foot wooden version of the aquatic creature last year. The fish motif reappeared throughout yesterday's festivities, taking such forms as a Fish-shaped cake, a fishnet hanging from the ceiling by the entrance, and gummiFish and goldFish crackers sprinkled liberally in bowls throughout the reception room...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: Cabot's Briggs Hall Opens After Facelift | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...color of their skin, but by the content of their character," proclaimed Ronald Reagan, blatantly misrepresenting Dr. King's words and intentions. Turning Dr. King into Dr. Pawn. Following the right-wing trend. Turning civil rights into civil wrongs. Edwin Meese blowing out the candles by spitting on the cake...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...worker Harry Mackenzie (Gene Hackman) in Twice after he meets up with Audrey (Ann Margret), the new vamp/bartender in town, on the night of his fiftieth birthday. (Of all the unromantic places in which to meet up with one's future lifemate, a run-down neighborhood bar takes the cake...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: More Than Twice | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

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