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When he was ten, he was big enough at last to be allowed on the courts. Every w day hen he he got was up at ten, he 6:30 and was headed for the local park, hanging around until bedtime waiting for a chance to play. "Sometimes people would reserve the court for an hour, but only play 55 minutes," he recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...beach: endless, empty stretches of white sand glimmering in the roseate reflection of billions of tiny shells. Barbuda (pronounced Ear-byou-duh), which has one of the Caribbean's few bird sanctuaries, also offers the area's best hunting: white crown pigeon, guinea hen, duck, fallow deer and feral boar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Still Pristine Caribbean | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

June 12: Margaret Thatcher, dubbed Attila the Hen by critics, loses a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. A mysterious fire sweeps through the Parliament building. Citing the danger of ceding control of new American missiles in Europe to the "pink forces within the Labor Party," Thatcher imposes martial law and seizes power for an indefinite period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Short Decade Begins | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

...penny-word. Amanda mothers her children, Tom and Laura, with the artifice of a rebel Donatello creating paens to an obsolete god of refinement and good living. Deserted by her husband, "a telephone man who fell in love with long distance," she is a "Christian martyr," a saintly hen, a charming and troublesome relic...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Finally plunged through the box for an official start, the bird veers sideways into the crowd sitting behind the platform on folding chairs. Eleven more are launched with equally poor results before a hen named Stephanie soars 60 ft., to the cheers of the congregation. For most of the next two hours, birds with names like Chick en Little, Chickenmauga, Opeck, Granny Kluk and Herb W. Cluckerman drop stonelike or circle back over the crowd. Apparently unruffled by the Shake 'N Bake threat, Otis, when his turn arrives, drops out and down. Kamikaze literally lays an egg en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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