Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York-based Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. A nine-year veteran of TIME who specializes in business and economics stories, DeMott was particularly pleased with the assignment because it permitted him to deal with a lifelong passion. "I've been fascinated by communications ever since I was a kid with two tin cans and a taut string between them," he says. "When I was ten, I got my own $10.95 telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses." DeMott soon graduated to more complicated gadgets, setting up telegraph keys with a teen...
...role-switching psycho-comedy. Randy, 33, portrays a degenerate con artist who scuttles out of the desert to antagonize his straitlaced screenwriter brother, played by Dennis, 29. The sibling rivalry that propels the plot came more or less naturally for the two. "I loved to torture Dennis as a kid," explains Randy. "I get to do a lot of it in the play. It's a lot of fun." Oh yeah, says Dennis. "After this play we'll either be closer than ever before or one of us will be dead.'' Some guys never grow...
Teammates cite Nolan's strength and speed as especially noteworthy. "He is a leader both on and off the field," says Azelby. "Andy is the strongest kid on the team...
...common of great rivalries. West Point cadets have frequently managed to steal Navy's mascot goat before the Army-Navy game. Once they even went so far as to take out an ad in The New York Times taunting the Midshipmen. "Hey Navy! Do your know where you 'kid' is today?...The Corps does...
Gunnery Sergeant Edward Kimm, 33, was no kid. Rather, he was a decent man who ungrudgingly kept up his child-support payments and arranged to spend a month every year with his two daughters, 7 and 6, who live in Lincoln, Neb., with their mother. Last week his stepdaughter Christina, 9, recalled that during his last visit, Kimm prepared them for the worst. "He said that if two Marines came to the door at our house, then he would be dead...