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...picking draft choices and making trades. Widow Georgia, however, inherited 70% of the stock, and, determined to use her clout, started attending Rams workouts. A onetime showgirl, she turned up at training camp in powder blue jogging suits, took a turn at place-kicking and pecked the tobacco-filled cheek of Head Coach Ray Malavasi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl: A Family Affair | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...Sotheby's acquisition of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet in 1964. Christie's, its more decorous rival, came to New York 13 years later and has been more cautious about expanding worldwide. (Sotheby's has 42 international bases, Christie's 29.) Not totally tongue in cheek, Christie's maintains that "Sotheby's is a businessman pretending to be a gentleman, while Christie's is a gentleman pretending to be a businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

BORN. To Meryl Streep, 30, high-cheek-boned actress (The Deer Hunter, Manhattan), and her husband, Sculptor Don Gummer, 32: a son, their first child; in New York City. Name: Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Which of the following words best completes this sentence: "How the ____ roses flush up in the cheeks." Red? Pretty? Yellow? The answer, according to the intelligence testmakers who devised that question more than a decade ago, is "red." But, observes a provocative new tabloid called Testing Digest, red is right "only if the cheek in question is white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Testy | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Israel's right to exist. From the Administration's viewpoint, however, the safety of the hostages was more important than giving the P.L.O. a chance to gain a bit of image-building publicity. If Arafat's emissaries were successful, the Palestinians could boast that they had turned the other cheek by helping Israel's protector and ally; if they failed, the world would at least give them credit for trying. As one Israeli diplomat bitterly observed, "It was a no-lose situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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