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Last week the ban on nonresidents was struck down altogether when Wayne County Judge Marvin Stempien ruled that a random check of park users' identification violated constitutional guarantees against illegal search and seizure. Pending a possible appeal, Dearborn's parks will remain open to outsiders, and the N.A.A.C.P. has called off its ten-month-old boycott of local stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: Welcome to Dearborn | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...Pentagon spokesman, Col. Marvin Braman, said survivors were seen being picked up by Soviet merchant ships, one of which had been towing the Yankee-class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crippled Soviet Sub Sinks After 3 Days | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...that made stocks increasingly vulnerable to a long- dreaded deep "correction." Once the slide started last Thursday, it picked up incredible speed because of so-called program trading -- computer- triggered waves of selling. By 11 a.m., the Dow had sunk almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down 40. It just kept dropping." Breen's account was only somewhat exaggerated: by 2:30 p.m., the Dow's plunge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sell Everything Now! | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...first outing on the Great White Way is now the longest-running musical in Broadway history (eleven years) and has grossed $242 million to date. So who can blame Composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), 42, if his latest project sounds the least little bit as if it could be called A Beauty Pageant? Actually titled Smile and loosely based on the 1975 film of that name, the show chronicles three days of competition and camaraderie among a group of high school contestants in a California beauty pageant. Some 3,000 girls auditioned for the 16 roles in the musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1986 | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Name?" (ESSAY, Aug. 18) should not play footloose with the truth. "The famous Miss Hogg" was named Ima by her father not out of cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people in education, mental health and the arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Lady | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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