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...nearby office building. Dodson noticed the young man wearing a tan raincoat. "He looked fidgety, agitated, a little strange," Dodson recalled later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...There are two or three other women in the studio from Danskin, a manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman in big tortoise-shell glasses, a grungy raincoat and sneakers. She plops down at the makeup table, opens a big handbag that turns out to be a makeup case and, as the onlooker tells himself that he is an idiot, briskly begins to turn herself into Clotilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modeling the '80s Look: The Faces and Fees are Fabulous | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...cold, persistent rain was falling in Plains when the former President and his expanded entourage finally arrived. Carter, in a raincoat, and Rosalynn, holding two red Georgia camellias, walked proudly and slowly down Main Street greeting the 3,500 friends who showed up to welcome them home. "Coming back to Georgia is a happy experience for me," he said, "and I thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: America's Incredible Day | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Just a voice out of the American night. "Mr. Lennon." He started to turn around. There is no knowing whether John Lennon saw, for what would have been the second time that day, the young man in the black raincoat stepping out of the shadows. The first shot hit him that fast, through the chest. There were at least three others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator. In the past few months the chairman has softened his voice, and he even appeared jokingly at a staff party with a black raincoat draped over his head. He answers the accusations against him by saying that they reflect the agency's new effectiveness and that "the rules are beginning to bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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