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...addition, Moscow made a gesture last week that was an apparent response to the Reagan Administration's call for concrete action to show good faith in the area of human rights. Fifteen Pentecostals from Siberia were allowed to emigrate to Israel. Some of them had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy five years ago, hoping that U.S. diplomats would help get them out of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Summit East | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson mile record is the one honor which has eluded Dixon. Fifteen years ago Jim Baker covered the distance in 4:00.2, and no one has topped it since. Because of the metric system, Dixon hasn't had many chances, but few doubt he has the capability to run a sub-four-minute mile. Dixon is likely to have his final chance when he last dons a Crimson uniform for the Cambridge/Oxford meet in England 10 days from now. For Adam Dixon, an athlete who will be sorely missed, the mile record would just be icing on the cake...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Award-Winning Cast: | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...small dawn-to-dusk radio station in Roxbury or some such place. Its signal was so weal that even in ?Cambridge it cam in as quavering and erratic as a BBC message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, that they Boston radio station played Black...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: When Men Were Men and Women Were Wives | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...attention span of an eight-year-old. Fifteen minutes of work on his material and he's getting antsy. The Palm Springs spread is, like Disneyland, made to be toured, and Hope is soon whisking the visitor over his domain, stopping one minute to show off a photo of George Patton urinating into the Rhine, and in the next parading the wonders of his clothes closet, a room about the size of a C.E.O.'s office. There are a wall of shoes and long racks of blazers, slacks and other 19th-hole formal wear. "I wear them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Wisecracker | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...embarrassing about the way Marshall fulfilled the Cleveland woman's fantasy. He led her to the Fantasy booth, a somewhat enlarged telephone booth hat blows air from its base and thus floats hundreds of dollars within he participant's reach. While the audience cheered, the Cleveland woman spent her fifteen seconds grabbing as much money as she would. Although she snared $900-not a small sum-one remembers her almost pathetic efforts, bending over when her time ended so as not to lose an extra bill or two that had landed on her back. Marshall escorted...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Happiness Hype | 4/26/1983 | See Source »

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