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Norman will still not concede his daughter is an adult ("Look at this fat little girl" is his greeting), and soon he is hectoring Bill about where he and Chelsea will sleep ("You could have the room where I first violated Ethel"). As for Billy, he is wary, always ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last. Kate and Hank! Hepburn and Fonda in On Golden Pond | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Nguyen Phuong Thuy is not alone. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), women on 81 % of the boats reaching Thailand in the first nine months of 1981 were raped, most of them many times over. A total of 552 were attacked in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Piratical Murders and Rape at Sea | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

The plight of the boat people began after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when increasing numbers of South Vietnamese began fleeing the oppressive Hanoi regime in rickety fishing craft. By 1980, Thailand was overwhelmed by nearly 300,000 refugees from Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Government policy in Bangkok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Piratical Murders and Rape at Sea | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

A series of manic bumbles follows. A naive disguise of clipped hair, a new mustache and a tanning parlor's efforts almost gets Lundgren expelled from a "straight" bar in Key West as a gay tourist. Ever the optimist, Lundgren reflects: "Rare, indeed, is a woman or man so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hick Gumshoe | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Aging was wonderful medicine for one President who left office widely despised: Herbert Hoover. He was 59 in 1933; the Depression shantytowns all over America were called Hoovervilles. By the time he died at 90 he was a Grand Old Man. Harry Truman, for all his fierce partisanship, had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Fluctuations on the Presidential Exchange | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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