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...worked it into his fly to give it body without adding significant weight. When he is suited up for fishing, his short-billed pipefitter's cap, pulled down over the half-moon of white on his forehead, and the crisscrossing of jerry-rigged gear on his chest make him look like a paratrooper ready for a midnight drop into Normandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: The hatch of the Green Drake | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Last week, however, a clearly outrageous gesture by a Green regional deputy from the state of Hesse had been approved in advance by local party members. At a reception for U.S. commanders in Wiesbaden, Frank Schwalba-Hoth threw a glass of his blood on the chest of Lieut. General Paul S. Williams Jr. to protest the projected deployment of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conflict in the Ranks | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Veterinary Pet Insurance recently paid a claim of $750, the maximum, on a $1,600 bill to perform open-chest surgery on a Gordon setter. Since the company started in April 1982, it has collected more than $850,000 in premiums from 15,000 policyholders. About 75% of customers have renewed their policies. Among the pets insured are the video dog Lassie and Hugh Hefner's pair of English sheep dogs. Veterinary Pet Insurance so far does not cover Hefner's bunnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Policies for Pets | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...Brazilians had another reason to wind up the talks with the IMF quickly. President Figueiredo, who has a history of heart disease and had been suffering chest pains, had made plans to fly to the U.S. last week for a checkup and a possible bypass operation at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rainy Days in Brazil | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...house?"). Before she goes home to bear his child in Kalamazoo, Miss Doubloon strikes a defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign on the right side. A badge of shame becomes, presto, a sexual advertisement; the event heralds "the birth of the 20th century T shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Sexual Revolution Began | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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