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...vinyl suitcase stuffed with clothes and stereo tapes, Olebogeng planned to take the train home on Wednesday. But pay in hand and spirits high, he went out for a final fling with a friend and wound up missing his connection. The next day, nursing a hangover, he hitched an automobile ride with a black driver. For 300 miles, he rode through the scrub veld of the western Transvaal, past parched cornfields and through conservative Afrikaner towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...plot could have come from a popular potboiler. An ambitious young British politician has a one-night fling with a prostitute, who then tries to blackmail him. When he refuses to pay, she tells her tale to the press. But the newspapers nobly refuse to print her story, and the politician goes on to become Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain More Scandalous Than Fiction | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Katsias--who recorded eight saves on the way to her first shutout of the year--spent much of the game watching her teammates fling shots at the opposing net, and got a clear view of Harvard's scoring difficulties...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Stickwomen Fall Flat; Deja Vu Dreams Vanish | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last night I ran into Sid . . . and wound up by doing a little pimping for him." Soon afterward, Hammett and Laura had a brief fling. It was, Herrmann speculates, "perhaps her way of punishing Sid for his numerous infidelities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feather Complex S.J. Perelman: a Life | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Several other choice deductions will become less appealing next year. Trips to investment seminars in exotic places, for example, will no longer be deductible for anyone but financial planners. Thus individuals who enjoy investment seminars in Bermuda and the like may want to take one last tax- deductible fling in 1986. Accountants are telling their clients to pay for their 1987 business expenses in 1986 because such items will be treated less liberally next year. That means many consumers will be paying reasonably far in advance for everything from magazine subscriptions to, yes, accountant's fees. Tax advisers have even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the New Tax Game | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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