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...Crimson player in particular who might worry about playing on the fake stuff is center John Francis, who's listed as a probable starter despite a knee injury in last week's win over Army...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: It's Another Must-Win for Big Red As High-Flying Crimson Visits Cornell | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING 1965: FASHION The Courage of Courreges | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...star in the Paris firmament. Courreges set up his shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in white dresses cut three inches above the knee and mid-calf boots open at the toe. The high-flying hem was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING 1965: FASHION The Courage of Courreges | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Your article "Making Hostility a Media Event" [Aug. 29] insinuates that Der Spiegel has depicted the U.S. "as a nation of knee-jerk militarists and simultaneously has managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1983 | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle next to theirs. A second blast ripped into the back seat of the youngsters' car, wounding Spilky in the right knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Fears | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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