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Before his mission in southern Italy and Sicily. Cameron Carson '84 thought that success could be measured in numbers of converts; after several months he realized that personal growth was a more likely yardstick. Finlayson concurs: "Even if I hadn't taught anyone who converted, it would have been a success just in terms of the broadening of my own horizons." Reported conversion rates are impressive in any case: they range from 20 (Carter) to 50 (Beck...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Spreading the Faith | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

...some 1,000 people have responded to the trailer. Most (but not all) were women who dialed Halberstadt's home telephone number; it flashes 19 times during the trailer. However, his cinematic mating calls have gone the way his preliminary interview for the Johnny Carson show went. "They rejected me," Halberstadt glumly reports. "It's nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Trailer for Hitching | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major part, that of Meggie's husband Luke, is being played by an Australian, Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant). Brown may have his Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes a mid-Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 12, 1982 | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...rumor had been circulating at Nevada State Prison in Carson City for nearly five years, but no one took it seriously. Finally, the new warden dispatched a special security squad to check it out. Sure enough, there in the prison shop were a three-wheel gocart, a motorcycle engine, a rear rotor blade-in short, more or less everything needed to build a helicopter except the main overhead blade. The criminal masterminds were a welder, a plumber and an electrician serving long sentences in maximum security. Warden George Sumner contends that the plot would never have flown anyway: "If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...students may continue to call me at home, since having abdicated my biological responsibility to aid in the survival of the race, I keep cats instead cats instead of kids.) Mina J. Carson Teaching Fellow Department of History

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorial Privacy | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

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