Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to Kim Dae Jung, the new party's backers include Kim Young Sam, 57, who spent the election campaign under house arrest, and Party President Lee Min Woo, 70, a stem-winding orator who used the rarely spoken words dokcheja (dictator) and kunsa dokje (military dictatorship) in campaign speeches. Most of the N.K.D.P.'s new strength at the polls was drawn not from the ruling party but from another opposition group, the Democratic Korea Party, which gained 81 seats in the 1981 elections but only 35 this time. N.K.D.P. support was particularly strong in Seoul (pop. 9 million...
...candlelight dinners and highbrow concerts at the Kennedy Center, and satellite balls across the country. Even the parade following the public swearing-in, with its 57 floats, 43 bands, the U.S. equestrian team and a dogsled, has been cut from the normal 2 1/2 hrs. to 1 hr. 15 min. The method: faster marching...
...master. At a reception for a visiting Italian official, Weinberger showed up an hour late, greeted the guest of honor in the glare of a television light that suddenly popped on, chatted with other guests and said his farewells amid a quick round of handshakes. Elapsed time: 14 min., 45 sec. "He knows his presence can make or break an event," said Host Paul Laxalt, whose event had evidently just been made...
...with all movies, the gamble was partly economic, but not primarily so. In fact, at a time when the merely average movie, nowhere near as long (2 hr. 43 min.), complex or striking to look at, costs about $11 million, and in a year when competing pictures like Dune and The Cotton Club ran up tabs in the $50 million range, Passage, at around $16 million, seems like a bargain. Its budget is a tribute to an ascetic director's waste-not-want-not ability to visualize precisely what he wants on paper, then put it on film efficiently...
...Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used two body substances, estrogen and progesterone, Rock, a daily Mass-going Roman Catholic, believed the church might accept it as a "natural" family-planning device. When Pope Paul VI banned all forms of artificial contraception in a 1968 encyclical, Rock angrily accused...