Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TWENTY years ago today, Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 was shot. In 1968, Kennedy was fast on his way to becoming a politician of a different sort--one who believed in transcendent issues, such as morality, integrity and justice, more than topical policy matters...
...between ideal and reality is once again visible, as the Soviet Union projects a fresh image to the world in the person of Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Intelligent, urbane and outspoken, she leads a fast-paced, glamorous life that is as elusive to most Soviet women as the pomp of the royal family is to most Britons. Hailed abroad as the new Soviet woman, Mrs. Gorbachev is perceived as her country's first female superstar since the days of Alexandra Kollantai and Inessa Armand, both early feminists, and Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, more than...
...summer comes, skateboarders are grabbing air all across the country in a fad that is fast, funky and sometimes risky...
...reel with a computer that monitors the spool's rate of spin during casts and adjusts it as necessary to keep the line from getting snarled. Daiwa of Garden Grove, Calif., sells a $100 spinning reel with a screen that tells how far the line is cast and how fast it is reeled in. The $695 Cannon Digi-Troll, sold by Michigan-based S & K Products, not only drops a trolling lure to a measured depth but can also be programmed to raise or lower it automatically until it finds the fish...
...wonder it is irresistible. Equipment to do it is relatively cheap. You can hone your skills on a grand backyard ramp or in a special park, but a downtown sidewalk will do just as nicely. The action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across...