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...your mistakes, you don't suffer as much," advises Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca in his current best seller, Talking Straight. Last week Iacocca's company made good on its most infamous goof-up in years, the practice of test-driving some of its cars as far as 300 miles with their odometers disconnected and then selling the cars as brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Honest Lee's Used Cars | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...federal court stuns the military by voiding a ban on gays. -- With help from teens, Arizona catches a constitutional goof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Feb. 22, 1988 | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Team-mate #2: I think we've made a goof...

Author: By Albert Yoon, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Lacrosse Finds Object; Interrupts Team Practice | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

...candlestick goof apparently occurred on a single sheet of 400 stamps. The orange glow of the candle flame was printed first through a photo-offset process. After a random quality-control inspection, the sheet was reversed so that the candlestick and the words surrounding it were printed upside down. Of 100 erroneous stamps sent to the McLean post office, five are believed to have been sold to the public before the CIA purchase. The whereabouts of those five stamps remains unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth And Reason Upside Down | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...something." He and his three brothers and two sisters were raised in a middle-class household in Baltimore, where Lewis attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and then became a star quarterback at Dunbar High School. "He put a lot of time into his studies. He didn't goof off," says his mother, Carolyn Fugett, who divorced his father and married Jean Fugett, an elementary school teacher, when Lewis was nine years old. Though he does not readily talk about it, Lewis must have been exposed to a strong sense of black pride early on. As a ten-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Into the Big Time | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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