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...consistently outmaneuvered the government team. Every evening, Walesa would climb the flower-covered main gate to give news of the talks to the crowd outside. His appearance was greeted by cheers and rousing choruses of Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). He responded with his actor's instincts, regaling his audience with jokes and raising his clenched fist in salute. Bantering with foreign journalists, he announced, "I am the leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Dared to Hope | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...auto industry's slump, Michigan had an unemployment rate of 12.7% in October, vs. a national average of 8%. Worse is to come. The University of Michigan's annual Conference on the Economic Outlook two weeks ago projected that the state's unemployment rate would climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times in the Heartland | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...climb the four flights up to the IAB gym, expect to see Crimson captain Donld Fleming explode off a mini-mini slump that has pestered him during the early part of the season. That's just a hunch, sports...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Cagers to Face Middies | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

...chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window to cut him loose from outside. For the next half-hour Hinckley lay on his cell floor, blue-faced and convulsive for lack of oxygen, before firemen using a hydraulic bolt cutter could get through the cell's bars. Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Attempt | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...that Brandeis is any good; on the contrary, the Judges may be the weakest team--besides St. Anselm's and MIT--the Crimson will face all year. Still, this year's Harvard squad is probably the strongest ever to climb four flights of IAB stairs...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Tune Up for Slate, Set Sights on League Crown | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

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