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...Pontiac, Mich., in 1982 to sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy and Montreal Canadien Guy Lafleur. The U.S. Olympic chief assistant coach, Tim Taylor of Yale, praises LaFontaine's See-ing-Eye hands: "He has a quick stick and a fast release with no waste motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Miracle Is the Goal: Olympic Hockey | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Balang's decision to speak out was prompted, in part, by a statement four days earlier by Reuben Regalado, 25, also a mechanic at Philippine Airlines. In a television interview in Tokyo, Regalado claimed that he had seen Galman stand ing with a group of soldiers near one of two AVSECOM vehicles. Regalado said he had an unimpeded view of the stairway as Aquino debarked, flanked by two AVSECOM escorts. Regalado could recall no one directly beneath the plane's fuse lage or under the stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Stepping Out of the Shadows | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Surveying row upon row of scrawny, sagging firs and spruces, Forester Hubert Eh threw up his hands in despair. "We were always so proud of these trees," said Eh. "Now the Black Forest is becom ing the Yellow Forest. It's enough to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Turning Green into Yellow | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 19, 1983 | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...with the hoofs, a lot like the flyboy who wouldn't grow up and, yes, apparently pansexual too. This last aspect of Culture Club has caused many titters, generated a lot of speculation and produced countless photos of Boy George, resplendent and unrepentant, winking or moue-ing in four-color splendor. His wardrobe is a tip-to-toe tutorial in the applied art of sartorial shock: coats that Scaramouche might have worn had Scaramouche been a color-blind butcher, a rabbi's black felt hat and unorthodox ties that seem to glow radioactively. His makeup is heavy: mascara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Picking the Pockets of Pop | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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