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...naval officer and one of those ramrod matriarchs who appeared to have walked straight from the Mayflower to Beacon Hill, young Bobby seemed to be born with sand under his skin. The man who would go to jail as a conscientious objector in World War II was a schoolboy brawler nicknamed "Cal" after the most violent of Roman emperors, Caligula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Man | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

Born into a working-class family near Buenos Aires, Galtieri studied at the Argentine Military College. As he rose through the ranks, he became known as a "soldier's soldier" who commanded respect and loyalty among his men. An impressive figure standing ramrod straight at 6 ft. 2 in., Galtieri enjoys a reputation in Washington as tough and shrewd. He is considered a potentially warm ally of the U.S., where he studied army engineering in 1960-61. Despite his credentials as a political hard-liner and staunch antiCommunist, Galtieri was not directly identified with the political oppression that engulfed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri: Man of Action | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...person cast that is admirably flexible, Remak Ramsay is outstanding. He combines a ramrod to-the-manor-born stance with a tissue-thin vulnerability. This holds true through a variety of roles: a small boy who is devastated when a maid (his surrogate mother) tells him that she is leaving to start a family of her own; a middle-aged man painfully humiliated by his teen-age son's awareness of his liaison with his best friend's wife; an old man meticulously detailing his own funeral arrangements to his son while soliciting some final word or gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline of the Wasp | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

That big blond cowboy with the evil grin is Ramrod (Wings Hauser), who manages a stable of prostitutes. He says he loves them, often he beats them, sometimes they die. Tonight, Ramrod is feeling meaner than usual. Seems that Princess (Season Hubley), the proverbial whore with a heart of depreciated gold, has set him up for the boys in blue. Time she was taught a fatal lesson, if Ramrod can just find her. And he will, using all the resources of his psychopathy-unless the vice squad finds him first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the R: Vice Squad | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...accused, a tall, impeccably tailored man with ramrod-straight posture and austere mien, is a member of the Danish branch of an old and distinguished German family. Among his ancestors: Conductor Hans von Bülow, husband of Franz Liszt's daughter. Sent to England during World War II, Von Bülow studied law at Cambridge. His reputation as a bright barrister attracted Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, who made him a chief aide. Getty called him "an extra right arm" and said he had "a rapier-quick mind and a penchant for hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Sleeping Beauty | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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