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...fourth and fifth floors of the seedy Morski Hotel in Gdansk, where Solidarity has its headquarters, there is unanimity on goals but little agreement on tactics. Indeed, listening to the leaders talk strategy, it seems remarkable that Walesa has managed to check Solidarity's innate militancy. Says Bogdan Lis, 28, the only union leader who belongs to the Communist Party: "None of us has trust or belief in those people [the authorities]. We consider them opponents." Alina Pienkowska, 28, a meek-looking nurse who is actually a firebrand, says the authorities have to prove that "the renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Want a Decent Life | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...freshmen. Coach Hunt glows at the mention of his new runners, repeatedly exclaiming "enormous potential!" and "what tremendous spirit!" Five freshmen in particular could improve the harriers' chances at the New England and AAIAW titles this fall: Eva Anderson, Pat French, Lis Harrigan, Anne Holtzworth, and Linda Yeager...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Harriers, UMass To Face Off in Opener | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

Novelist Rogin is the managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, a magazine in which bright, brisk conflicts get resolved by the end of the fourth quarter. Albert's world is more bewildering, achingly inconclusive. He lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone, two flights up from lis "semi-ex-wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lacrimae Rerum | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...World and Jumbo in the early '60s, lis film appearances were generally unmemorable. He was at his best playing New York theaters and nightclubs, where lis free-wheeling (but never blue) imagination could run riot. In a typical turn, Durante would good-naturedly insult waiters, fire off his ineffable quips ("Surrounded by assassins"), and let loose with his nonsensical songs (Inka Dinka Doo). He delighted in flinging props at the band or in ripping apart his piano for laughs. When Durante took his antics to radio in the '40s and television in the '50s, he found millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A King of Vaudeville | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Edwin Rommel, 50, of Utica, N.Y., on the other hand, already knows what a million looks like. In 1958 Rommel and lis family started collecting pennies in a glass jar. By last Thanksgiving he reached his goal of 1 million, which he stored in rolls of 50 in a footlocker. Last week the penny pincher deposited the 3½ tons of coppers in a bank, and promptly wrote out a check for a $7,500 Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Magic Number | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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