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Tomorrow both men will return to Harvard Timothy Leary whose "turn on tune in and drop out" became the rallying cry for a generation of drugs-users, and Richard Alpert who now goes by the name Ram Dass. The two will speak at Sanders Theater at 10:30 a.m. in an event being billed as a "psychadelic reunion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leary, Alpert Return | 4/23/1983 | See Source »

Theodore Roosevelt bragged, as if he had created the Panama Canal with his bare hands, "I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate." Teddy's battering-ram shoulder did wonders, but private concerns had already made attempts to cut through the isthmus, even in failure showing it could be done. T.R. knew the time was ripe. Soil conservation was a science long before Franklin Roosevelt lifted it to the top of the national agenda and we began to heal the washed and windblown land. Ike grasped the importance of a huge interstate highway system. His endorsement helped push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Turning Vision into Reality | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Gum-Nut Tragedy All the Way | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...Ram-stag mutton, n.: old, tough meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...told anyone who would listen that Chrysler's future was threatened unless it could get financial help to transform its aging, oversize fleet into economical front- wheel-drive cars. It took losses of $1 billion, plus all of lacocca's lobbying during his first year at Chrysler, to ram the mes sage through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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