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...that's how long it took Vicki Palmer to steal the puck from Wesleyar, defender Joyce Galt, skate the length of the ice and deposit the puck into the Cardinal twines to put Harvard...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Icewomen Top Wesleyan | 2/3/1983 | See Source »

...intelligence official. "It may just be to keep the British on edge, to make them spend a lot of money on defense. But if you are British, you have to assume they'll try something." Which may explain Thatcher's commitment to Fortress Falklands. -By Jay D. Palmer. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: And Now, Fortress Falklands | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...head that points toward the body. It demands a square stroke of the ball that literally forces the player to use a textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game. Arnold Palmer, 53, gave it a swing, and at the Los Angeles Open earlier this month Johnny Miller, 35, and three other pros were all Basakwerders, at least on a few greens. Says Gene Littler, 52, who has been using the putter the longest: "It makes you laugh when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

FICTION: Bech Is Back, John Updike George Mills, Stanley Elkin Ironweed, William Kennedy On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason ∙The Transfer, Thomas Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...Author Palmer, 27, occasionally reveals his lack of experience. He does not always establish the point from which the action is to be viewed. It is unlikely, for example, that a passenger in a helicopter could perceive that a fence, far below, was strung at the top with concertina wire. Palmer also has a habit of interrupting characters' reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder on the Cocaine Express | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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