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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race between the two Democrats--former State Secretary for Environmental Affairs Evelyn Murphy and State Sen. Gerard D'Amico (D-Worcester)--ends tomorrow. Republican Nicholas Nikitas, a Reagan appointee to two commissions on education, is unopposed in the Republican primary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Day At The Races | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...last week, more than four years after Belushi's body was found in a bungalow off Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, a Los Angeles judge handed a three- year prison sentence to Cathy Evelyn Smith, 39, who supplied the actor with heroin during his final week. Smith had pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter, as well as to administering and furnishing controlled substances. While conceding that Belushi was partly responsible for his own death because of his "drug-infested life," Judge David Horowitz ruled that Smith must be punished for "being the source of that poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchants of Misery | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Travel broadens the horizons. A glance at a Berlin telephone book reveals Ottos everywhere, but hardly any Kimberlys. Evelyn Waugh periodically had to reassure Americans that he was not a woman and that Evelyn was quite a common name for boys in England. Or as Peter Lorre whined in Beat the Devil, "In Chile the name of O'Hara is . . . a tip-top name. Many Germans in Chile have come to be called O'Hara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in a Name? | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...unit, known as the Leopards, wipe out cocaine- processing factories. But "Operation Blast Furnace," which has flooded Trinidad with more than 170 soldiers, a dozen or so agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and representatives from 53 news organizations, has proved as confused an antic as in an Evelyn Waugh novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia High Aims, Low Comedy | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias to hold the world record in a multiple-discipline event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Less Than Goodwill Games | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

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