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...barracks, and television newscasters have hung up their ill-fitting military uniforms. Indeed, the most vivid reminder that Poles live in a state where the authorities can-and occasionally do-frisk, detain and arrest on sight is what cannot be seen any more: the once ubiquitous Solidarity pins on coat lapels and the political slogans that seemed to be scrawled on every available wall. But if the shock and fear of the first dark days of martial law have now passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Standoff in Victory Square | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot a steer on the flank with a Nel-Spot, and you color-coat him with a splotch of red or blue or yellow the size of a fried egg. easily recognizable at shipping time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Splotched in the Woods | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...conclusions about why 1980 turned out as it did. In the end, however, he refuses to say whether the election marks "twilight or dawn, an era ending or an era beginning. "He suggests that the ultimate significance of 1980 remains in the hands of Ronald Reagan and his Republican coat tail-riders, who can now either cement their tenuous 1980 coalition or embark on another "wrong turning" that could, as in the 1960s, "bring us to convulsion in the streets. "This is perhaps the one unfortunate thing about America in Search of Itself. More than any of the previous Making...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Jaded Journeyman | 7/13/1982 | See Source »

...when the President was spied coming down the corridor in the morning in a brown suit, he was in a bad mood. Aide Tom Stephens flashed the word all through the White House to beware. GQ's Haber insists that Kennedy's fondness for a two-button coat began a trend that drove three-button models out of the market. Kennedy also put the last nail in the coffin of the men's hat industry. He was proud of his bushy hair and refused to wear a hat, despite the pleadings of the industry. Gerald Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Live Men Do Wear Plaid | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...Hispanic community, which now constitutes 40% of Miami's population, complained that there were no productions in Spanish. Feelings were not at all mollified when Herman announced that the official dress for men would be not white tie, black tie or even coat and tie, but the guayabera, a fancy open-necked Cuban shirt, worn loose outside the trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweating It Out in Miami | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

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