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...gymnasium in the Minneapolis suburb was hot and airless. Students squirmed T in the bleachers while a panel of teachers and politicians discussed the quality of education. One shirtsleeved speaker, however, held the audience rapt. "I just have a feeling that maybe the generation that went through the Great Depression and the great war, World War II, maybe we thought we ought to make things easier for our children," mused the President. "Maybe we're partly responsible for what has happened." Ronald Reagan's main message to the forum in Hopkins, Minn., sponsored by his National Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Course in Politics | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

Braving the blizzard conditions that blanketed New Jersey last night with over a foot of snow, the cagers made it to Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium by game time, but could not overcome the natural avalanche of the Tigers' front line, losing...

Author: By Mike Knobler and John D. Solomon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Icemen Win in OT, But Tigers Rout Cagers | 2/12/1983 | See Source »

Conducted in a fortress-like Rome gymnasium guarded by several hundred police and carabinieri, the trial lasted nearly nine months and involved testimony from 298 witnesses. Throughout the proceedings, the defendants, 18 of whom were women, were penned in six steel cages, while those who had become informants were protected by bulletproof glass. As one of the cooperative terrorists walked to his seat last week, a defendant yelled, "You would sell your own mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Justice at Last | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

They have occupied the town gymnasium, and sleep on the floors of the courtroom and the town magistrate's office. They even come into the kitchens of the tin and clapboard seafront houses to take tea from their adopted mums like loving sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...were removed. Cunard decided to store ashore the bone china, the crystal glassware, the potted plants, the 17,000 bottles of champagne and the half-ton of caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were taken down, but the walls of smoked glass and the polished chrome bar tables were left in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falklands: The Queen Is Hailed | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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