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...sure thing going, and you just know you're going to win, bear Damon Runyon's advice in mind. "Son, no matter how far you travel, or how smart you get, always remember this: Some day, somewhere, a guy is going to come to you and show you a deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet him, for as sure...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION: Shows exports from Newly Industrialized Countries 1980-1986: color illustrations show tape deck, boot, bolt of fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newly Industrialized Countries: Low Costs, High Growth | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...incriminating evidence of Iran's lawlessness consisted of nine deadly mines whose horns bristled from the deck of the crippled vessel Iran Ajr. The Iranian navy landing craft was seized off Bahrain after a surprise attack by two U.S. helicopters left five Iranian sailors dead and 26 others captive. The black weapons, mounted on wheels, pointed silent but damning accusations at the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

When other Navy experts arrived to inspect the ship, they found that all but two of the nine mines arrayed at mid-deck were armed and, as one officer said, "ready to go." Luckily, one bullet that had pierced a mine had not set off its 250-lb. load of explosives. If it had, the other mines would presumably have ignited too. The crew might have been killed, and the long- sought evidence would have vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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