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...shot him dead-within "three to five seconds," according to a reporter who was with the police. But the car was not the getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record. And at 5 ft. 4½ in. and 180 Ibs., he fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only one way: he was black. Despite the reluctance of citizens to second-guess the police, who continued to insist that Bowden was a criminal, an all-white jury found the killing to be a "wrongful death," and awarded his widow Patricia a judgment, still unpaid, that with interest exceeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1930: India: Declaration of Independence | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Asst. Mgr. Hvd Glee Club; Band; Mgr Women's Swimming a Diving lean Photo only The Harvard Crimson Mgr Women's Variety Basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Class Marshals | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...faces are different, though not very: the macho Texan on CBS, the winsome South Dakotan on NBC and the urbane Canadian on ABC are all white, lean and youthfully middleaged; all part their dark, wavy hair on the left. They do vary somewhat in manner: Dan Rather of CBS is intense, Tom Brokaw of NBC is quick to laugh or lament, and Peter Jennings of ABC is elegantly detached. The newscasts that they anchored last week, in heavily promoted head-to-head competition, were almost exactly alike, not only in content but in specific imagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Three for the Money | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...example, has no juice bars, hanging plants or fancy locker rooms here, just true grit. "You don't come to this gym to meet people," says Owner Rena Ettlinger, whose exercise instructors are all physiologists trained in kinesiology, the science of body movement. "The goal here is long, lean, tight, firm bodies that are powerful all over." At the no-frills Mike's Gym in Cambridge, Mass., Bodybuilder Vinny Greco, 31, scoffs at what he views as the promise of instant fitness promoted by flashier health clubs: "It's like fast food. It's a fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Make Way for the New Spartans | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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