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For chauvinists and chroniclers, the race for medals was hardly a race: the East Germans and Soviets, as usual, scooped up medals by the fistful. But thanks to Heiden and the hockey team, the U.S. did remarkably well: six golds, to nine for the East Germans and ten for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Stunning Show, After All | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

Yojimbo. This is one of the funniest of Akiro Kursawa's Samurai films, telling the story of a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) who offers his services to each of two factions warring in village. After some reversals, he of course ends up helping the side that deserves his skills. The film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birds DeWitt, Bees DeWitt | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

Joe Heitz has turned down a fistful of offers to sell out to big companies. He prefers to live out an American ideal, working with his family, building his own enterprise. Says Heitz, brown eyes squinting in the California sun: "Alice and I started this business knowing that we would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Enterprise in the Valley | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Coy Eklund 62 president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, calls this "the spirit of coming right with people." He does what he can, whether by sitting on the boards of a fistful of black, Puerto Rican, Indian and women's organizations or by compiling a dictionary of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coming Right with People | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Like Kissinger, Vance has no problem making decisions, but he does not like to be flooded with them. "He is very methodical and prefers focusing on one issue at a time," says a State Department Soviet specialist. He works hard, putting in long hours, but is not as tireless as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Vance v Kissinger: A Matter of Style | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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