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...Iran, and the combined accounts make up a mosaic of remarkable courage during months of deprivation and degradation. To illuminate pieces of that mosaic, TIME Correspondent Christopher Redman last week interviewed Charles Jones, 40, of Detroit and Correspondent Dean Brelis talked at length with Michael Metrinko, 34, of Olyphant, Pa. Their reports...
...lure Congressmen into criminal activity, Heymann pointed to the Justice Department's success in prosecuting officials charged with accepting bribes. Thus far, the investigation has resulted in the convictions of six current or former members of the House of Representatives, and eight others, including the mayor of Camden, Pa., and three Philadelphia city councilors. In addition, former Sen. Harrison J. Williams of New Jersey faces trial on Abscam charges...
...early hours of Wednesday, Washington, D.C., time, those long-silent voices sent their relatives in the U.S. into shouts of joy and expressions of affection as the broken threads of family life were tentatively rejoined. At 2:30 a.m., Alice Metrinko picked up her phone in Olyphant, Pa., to hear her son Michael, 34, say, "Hi, Mom." They chatted for 45 minutes. She asked why he had seemed to be hiding from the TV cameramen in Algiers. Well, he said, his shirt was ragged and dirty, and his trousers had no cuffs. He had lost about 40 Ibs. but insisted...
...same time, he began to erode Senator Edward Kennedy's supposedly unbeatable lead in the pre-primary-season polls. It was a bad time to be an Iranian student in the U.S. and a good time to be a seller of flags. The citizens of Hermitage, Pa., put up a new flag in the local cemetery for every day of the captivity. Yellow ribbons were tied around trees-old, oak and otherwise-across the country. The White House Christmas tree was left dark except for the star on its top. Bales of Christmas cards were delivered to the hostages...
Researchers stress that the work is in the preliminary stages and a surefire treatment for baldness a long way off. Says Dr. Anthony Zappacosta of Bryn Mawr, Pa., who prescribed the drug for several patients, some of whom were bald: "In most cases hair grows on the scalp for about eight weeks, attaining normal thickness and a length of around three-quarters of an inch. Then it falls out, and the growing process begins again." Such hair today, gone tomorrow results do not bother some medical students. They reportedly have been rubbing a crude minoxidil lotion on their thinning peaks...