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...tough game, like shooting foul shots. You miss more than you make," says Wilt Chamberlain, 47, who after eleven years of retirement from pro basketball is putting on a full-court press for stardom in Conan: King of Thieves, due out this summer. In the sequel to 1982's barbaric hit, the 7-ft. 1-in. former N.B.A. champion dunks some nasty villains as the warrior Bombaata, who is on a perilous adventure with the shorter (6 ft. 2 in.) but broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...Services Committee. He stressed that there was no middle ground between the zero option and full deployment of the 572 new American missiles called for in the December 1979 decision. He concluded his testimony with a quotation from the British statesman Samuel Hoare, reflecting ruefully on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "slide into surrender" to Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. The comparison between Chamberlain in Munich and Nitze in Geneva was no less invidious for being implicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Arms Control: Behind Closed Doors | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Currier Assistant to the Masters Brenda Chamberlain explains that "there are hundreds of criteria we use to decide who we will accept," with "diversity" the main goal...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Harvard's House Guests | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

Acting House Master Stophen Bernardi and Senior Tutor Lee Pelton were unaware of the incident, but Margaret Chamberlain, a resident tutor, said that fire alarms went of in both the Standish and Gore portions of Winthrop. All residents were told to eat their meal at other Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Fire | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...fishing boat as the invasion was starting. On Day 2 of the invasion, having learned that telex and telephone lines had been knocked out in the fighting, four of the reporters-Don Bohning of the Miami Herald, Edward Cody of the Washington Post, Morris Thompson of Newsday and Greg Chamberlain of Britain's Guardian-accepted a U.S. military offer to be airlifted to the U.S.S. Guam, a helicopter carrier, in the belief that they could file their dispatches back to the U.S. from there. Instead, the reporters found themselves, as Bohning later put it, "more or less captives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Press from the Action | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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