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...waitresses at the stops. In daylight the city fades and blurs when the transients appear, tourists who merely want a meal and a tank of gas. They file into the carpeted dining rooms away from the professional drivers' side, sit at the Formica tables set off by imitation cloth flowers in bud vases. They eat and are gone, do not return. They are not a part of the city and obscure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, and Paulos Tzadua of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, each a determined critic of his country's leftist government, and Warsaw's Henryk Gulbinowicz, a supporter of Poland's outlawed Solidarity union. Also receiving red hats were two U.S. prelates whose outlooks seem cut from papal cloth: Boston's Bernard F. Law and New York City's John J. O'Connor, 65, who acknowledged the news by noting, "The Holy Father is anxious that all bishops practice his teaching." Another apparent signal of the Pope's conservative views came when perhaps the most famous Roman Catholic woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1985 | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...baked forms of Jews. He must go see the German government-sponsored labs of Josel Mengele, where Jews were used as experimental animals, frozen to death, put in high pressure chambers, injected with viruses. Reagan must wear Nazi gloves made from the skin of Jews, feel cloth woven from their hair. He must see the gas chambers, and lastly he must see the ditches filled with hundreds of thousands of non-Jews, Johaovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Gypsies, the mentally at the chronically sick...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Throwing the Hatchet | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

Discovery of the finely wrought objects was kept under wraps, awaiting the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cave Cache | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

Butson says that Gorbaches's well publieized trips to Canada and Britain are example of Soviet confidence in him , and evidence that he is cut from a different cloth than his predecessors, But Gorbachev's high-profile is best read as a reminder of how well the West are to embrace those who can smile for the camera. Kiss the babies, and generally act like your friendly neighborhood politician...

Author: By Michael W. Hitchoin, | Title: Fashioning Significance in an Insta--Biography | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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