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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Policeman Bruce Barber, was that the perpetrator was only 2 ft. 6 in. tall and so "didn't attract any attention" when she sidled up to the Brinks guard's money bag. While the guard was distracted signing receipts in a cafeteria at Los Angeles International Airport, the tiny girl reached into the bag and pulled out a bundle of cash totaling $8,300. She then toddled back to her nearby parents and handed it to her father. An alert cashier who ! happened to see the exchange rushed over to George Arias, 36, and his wife Joanna, 22, to retrieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: A Well-Trained Toddler | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...note from the publisher advises, "NR extends maximum freedom in this column, but NR's maximum freedom may be another man's straitjacket. NR reserves the right to reject any copy deemed unsuitable." NR would likely have turned down a West Coast entreaty: "Kinky Boy Scout seeks Kinky Girl Scout to practice knots. Your rope or mine?" NR's personals are notably chaste, but so are those in most other magazines. The emphasis is on "traditional values," on "long-term relationships" and "nest building." The sexual revolution has cooled down to a domestic room temperature. The raciest item might call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Advertisements for Oneself | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...Jerry was a rowdy in his school years, drove cars at 100 m.p.h. and hung around outside a neighborhood cafe late at night with his buddies stopping traffic and taunting motorists. When he proposed marriage to Macel Pate, who played the piano at the Park Avenue Baptist Church, the girl's mother was crestfallen that she had taken up with a Falwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell Spreads the Word | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...antiabortionists have taken their fight to the streets. Women arriving at clinics in many cities face a formidable line of protesters, or "sidewalk counselors," who try to talk them out of getting abortions. Threatened with a boycott of their lucrative annual cookie sale by right-to- lifers, Detroit's Girl Scouts in 1984 deleted mention of abortion and birth control from a proposed training program for adults. In Arizona and North Carolina, Fundamentalists are seeking to prevent public funding for Planned Parenthood, the organization dedicated to providing family planning, including abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell's Crusade | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

Outside the U.S. embassy building in Moscow last week, a redheaded girl sat dejectedly on a metal railing. A Soviet dissident? An American with passport problems? Hardly. It was Amy Carter, 17, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, on a tour with a group of 150 Americans. Earlier, she and four friends, having heard about the cheeseburgers and French fries served at the embassy's snack bar, had arrived to have lunch. "They wouldn't let us in," Amy said. The snack bar, it seems, is open only to permanent members of Moscow's American community who purchase chits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 2, 1985 | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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