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...began at 9:30 last Wednesday morning. A white 1979 Ford van with Florida plates drove past startled U.S. park police and stopped facing the main entrance of the Washington Monument. Emblazoned on its side was his message, #1 PRIORITY: BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS. A man in a dark blue jumpsuit and a black motorcycle helmet with a visor covering his face emerged from the van, brandishing a menacing-looking black box. He announced that his van contained 1,000 Ibs. of TNT with which he threatened to reduce the monument to "a pile of rocks." He brusquely handed a park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Man's Tragic Protest | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...Never mind that we had just eaten?a social invitation by the General Secretary could not be refused. Our minds addled by a 15-hour plane trip and our bellies distended by a Russian dinner, we sped to the Kremlin. Brezhnev received us in what looked like a Churchill jumpsuit in sky blue. He did not neglect to remind me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEARS OF UPHEAVAL | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...recent Los Angeles magazine cover story on diet and fitness, Christie Brinkley gave in to the unthinkable and stuffed her splendid 5-ft. 8-in. frame with Mexican food. Christie paid for the binge-she found herself a wee bit more pneumatic in her mauve, Lycra-stretch jumpsuit. Not to worry. Included in the Los Angeles story was a collection of hip-slimming homilies to which Christie subscribes. Most of the diet tips were standard. Avoid mayonnaise, butter, margarine, oil and salad dressings, drink lots of water and no more than two glasses of wine a day. Christie, who weighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jan. 25, 1982 | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

This album was recorded by the time Elvis had become pathetic. You buy it expecting to hear a great voice sing the old classics; what you get is an overproduced record by a fat man in a white jumpsuit who had stopped believing in anything but throwing wilting leis and sweaty hand-kerchiefs to 37-year-olds. The King belts out every line as if it were the climax of the song and the ultimate tribute to the Most High...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...life caring for the big plane. A parachute rigger fresh out of the Navy, he signed on with Hughes at 21, in 1946. "We ran the controls every other week, hydraulics one week and electrical the next." Soderberg is a lean, intense fellow who wears an airman's jumpsuit. He saw the plane's only flight, on Nov. 2, 1947, when Hughes lifted it off the water of Long Beach Harbor and flew it at a height of 70 ft. for about a mile. Hughes had announced he would only undertake taxiing tests, but Soderberg says he knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Goose Lives! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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