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...hard to find since it sports Georgia license plates and a JIMMY CARTER FOR PRESIDENT bumper sticker. The police immobilized the car by applying the so-called French boot (a device that prevents the car from moving) to the left front wheel. Their reason for putting a grip on Ham was Jordan's failure to pay $110 worth of parking tickets he has accumulated since last August. His violations: parking illegally during rush hour, in front of a fire hydrant and twice in no-parking zones. It was the second booting for Jordan. The first was in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ham Jordan Gets the Boot | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Communists were so nervous about the politics of an impending visit that they ham-handedly censored John Paul's first message to his former diocese in Cracow because he praised St. Stanislaw, an 11th century bishop of that city, by describing him as a martyr who "did not hesitate to confront the ruler when defense of the moral order called for it." The Polish government also balked at the Pope's expressed interest in returning home during last month's 900th anniversary celebration of the martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Joyous Welcome for a Native Son | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...invaded Poland, were vicious anti-Semites. Sophie admits that she regarded the beleaguered inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto as a buffer that would protect her and her children. She refused to work for the Polish resistance. Her arrest was a matter of blind accident; she was caught smuggling a ham into Warsaw to give to her sick mother. At Auschwitz, she watched her young daughter being taken to the ovens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Riddle of a Violent Century | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...shuttle diplomacy, not on details but on pace and tactics. Just last week, when Carter told Bob Strauss that he wanted him as his coordinator of Middle East policy, he silenced Strauss's protest by ex plaining that he had confirmed his judgment with "Rosalynn, Cy, Zbig and Ham." Note the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Second Most Powerful Person | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Great music isn't Passim's only attraction. The Listening Room menu include hot and cold drinks; tuna, ham, and kosher-style salami sandwiches; date-nut bread; cheese and crakers; and eight different kinds of desserts. The prices range from...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: A Scoop Behind the Coop | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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