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...gam di" (I love you, in Welsh) proclaimed Elizabeth Taylor, 50, arms outstretched, as she swept across the stage of London's Duke of York's Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 15, 1982 | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...Betts Oklahoma 8 Andy Coats Don Nickles Oregon 6 Ted Kulongoski Bob Packwood Pennsylvania 27 Pete Flaherty Arlen Specter Rhode Island 4 Joseph Garrahy Vincent Cianci South Carolina 8 Emest Hollings Marshall Mays South Dakota 4 George McGovern James Abdnor Tennessee 10 Texas 26 Utah 4 Daniel Berman Jake Gam Scott Matheson Bob Wright Vermont 3 Patrick Leahy Stewart Ledbetter Jerome Diamond Richard Snelling Virginia 12 Washington 9 Warren Magnuson Slade Gorton James McDermott John Spellman West Virginia 6 Jay Rockefeller Arch A. Moore Wisconsin 11 Gaylord Nelson Robert Kasten Wyoming 3 TOTAL: 538 *Jacob K. Javits, Liberal Party Incumbents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1980 Election Scorecard | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...kept, of course, in a locked drawer in a locked room. With assistance from 14 TIME research librarians, she attempted to verify every fact and figure included in the excerpts. Inevitably, some niggling little problems arose. Should the traditional Chinese phrase for "Bottoms up," for example, be transliterated as gam-bei, the dialect version, as it appears in the book? Or should it be ganbei, the Mandarin version? We settled on the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...pact's most ardent opponents intend to block the treaty by attempting to pass "killer amendments." Utah Republican Jake Gam will offer a package that would amount to a substitute treaty. Said he of the one signed in Vienna: "Whatever else it is, it is not arms control." His feeling is shared by an unlikely ally, Liberal Democrat George McGovern of South Dakota, an advocate of disarmament who feels that SALT II does not go nearly far enough. "I don't think SALT II is worth fighting over," he said. "We ought to just scrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Signed And Sealed... | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...happy news this fall is that legs are coming in from the cold. The fashion industry is calling this the Year of the Leg. Designers can hardly do too much to glamorize the gam and take the limb out of limbo. Dawn Mello, fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, pronounces: "If you want to do something new to your wardrobe, you accessorize the leg." Adds Sunny Clark, a buyer for Henri Bendel: "This year there are a jillion different looks for the leg." The re-emergence of the leg results partly from the new, bigger, fuller skirts and dresses that require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Layered Look for Legs | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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