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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have watched the development of the Harvard squad is to have watched the development of Mullen as the premier defender in the Ivy League. Torg as the clutch reliever on the team and Lamont as the ever-reliable goalic who has saved more games in the past four years than any other team member...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Last Time | 11/4/1983 | See Source »

...PRESENT LOCATION of the United Nations does more than just bolster America's prestige and its claim to be the world's premier power, the New York site also draws to the United States all the world's leaders and top diplomats, enabling them to see American pluralism firsthand. The United Nations' proximity to the nation's capital gives the United States an unqualified edge in the diplomatic world; a short hop to Washington, D.C. allows foreign dignitaries visiting the United Nations to meet their American counterparts for important bilateral consultations. And contrary to the President's appraisal of American...

Author: By Claude D. Convisser, | Title: Gambling With Prestige | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...Colbert may be the world's premier authority on the ancient reptiles. He has devoted more than half a century to tracking down, examining and reconstructing their fossilized remains. His quest has taken him to sites as distant as the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Curator of fossil reptiles and amphibians at New York City's American Museum of Natural History for 35 years, he directed the construction of its famed dinosaur galleries. Though Colbert retired in 1970, he continues to write and lecture, showing a rare gift for bringing to life a long-dead world. Nowhere is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Debunking Dinosaur Myths | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...beginning there was Playboy, then came raunchy Penthouse, and now, for the man who is ready to settle down, there's One Woman, a quarterly that will faithfully-and exhaustively-show a single dream girl. The sexy subject of One Woman's 96-page premier issue, to be on newsstands for $3.50 next week, is Morgan Fairchild, 33, best known as the bitchy bombshell on TV's Flamingo Road. Six photographers portray Fairchild in relatively modest poses and attire. In a variety of interviews, Fairchild is only slightly more revealing, disclosing that she likes older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...cordiality apparent during Weinberger's trip does not mean there will be a great leap forward in U.S.-China relations. The Chinese, as Premier Zhao Ziyang told Weinberger, are waiting to see if U.S. words will be "proved by deeds and actions." The U.S. must worry whether Peking is using it mainly as a pawn in its closer-to-home struggle with the U.S.S.R. But for an Administration that early this summer announced plans to sell Taiwan $800 million in arms, relations are perhaps better than could have been anticipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Medium Leap Forward? | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

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