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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tourists visiting the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in Florida sometimes discover not only Alligator mississippiensis in the swim. A Homo sapiens named Kent Vliet, 26, may have waded in too. With a cypress pole in hand, the University of Florida doctoral candidate in zoology usually takes the plunge in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Poor Vision | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

Harold ("Red") Poling: "Once we discover why we lost the market in California, we will prevent the same thing from happening to us elsewhere." To increase its West Coast visibility, Ford prominently displays pictures of the Mustangs it sells to the California Highway Patrol with the caption, "This Ford chases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford Zooms into the Fast Lane | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

The descendant of a distinguished New England family, Fuller was the fifth generation of his family to go to Harvard. He was expelled in 1914 for blowing his tuition and expense money on a spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Who Believed in Mankind | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

America's most unsung sleuths may well be the staff members of the Centers for Disease Control. In the opinion of Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce, who spent more than two weeks reporting the activities of the Government's CDC for this week's cover stories, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 4, 1983 | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

Clever, those television programmers. In the late 1970s they were among the last to discover that news is not just news, it is also (Lights! Cameras! Banter!) entertainment. So if news can be entertainment, why not turn entertainment into news? Presto, Entertainment Tonight was born: news in form, entertainment in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Turning Show Biz into News | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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