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...Sunday Mirror alleged that she had been trysting with the Prince on the royal family's private train. That was the last straw. Her mother, the Honorable Mrs. Shand-Kydd, fired off a letter to the Times. "Is it necessary or fair to harass my daughter daily, from dawn until well after dusk?" she asked. Then the palace took the almost unprecedented step of demanding a retraction of the "love train" story. It did not get one, but chastened editors informally agreed among themselves to ease up on Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Charles Picks a Bride | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...knows the concrete reality of the Hindu religion--the disastrous consequences of the cult of the cow, advocated even by Gandhi, of the caste system impossible to break down by any legislation, of the shocking superstition and so on--cannot regard things as equal, and it may perhaps dawn upon him up to a point what Christian faith can mean for men by way of enlightenment and liberation...

Author: By Paul R. Q. wolfson, | Title: A Question of Faith | 3/5/1981 | See Source »

...four years at Harvard, the three time All-American has juggled an average of four hours of workout per day with classes and time logged in the library. This has meant sitting through morning classes after completing a pre dawn workout designed to push his body to the brink of exhaustion. It has also meant readying for midyear examinations when the workouts were getting more rigorous in preparation for the tougher part of the meet schedule...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Bobby Hackett | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

Walking along the beach at Madruga the hour just before dawn, companion only to darting lizards and the waves, Franz awoke in a dream where everything was purple, gray, black, invisible...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Port of Call | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...victims were men, ages 25 to 50, and apparently healthy. Each died between midnight and dawn, presumably while asleep. Sometimes the deaths were preceded by heavy breathing and nightmarish screams. Says a St. Paul-area medical examiner, Michael McGee: "The autopsies have been uniformly negative. We're really quite baffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mystery Deaths in the Night | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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