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Soon cars gather around the trailer giving it some clubishness. I imagine its members as reckless romantics, with hearts that pump them out of planes, with a love for life so great that they're dying to risk it. But they slowly roll out of their cars, struggle to stand erect and stretch and scratch their heads, stomachs or buttocks. They yawn and speak of last night, of all that beer. A paunchy man, dressed in blue jeans and a dirty white sweat shirt ambles towards us. "You here to jump?" A moment of silence. "Well my, my name...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...Donovan ignored the advice of the creator of James Bond, Author Ian Fleming, who as a British naval intelligence officer in 1941 described the ideal spy as middleaged, sober, discreet and experienced. Instead, Wild Bill sought out impatient young people who did not mind being bold or even "calculatingly reckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Predictably enough, Kennedy's presidential bid has also revived press stories about Chappaquiddick. his 1951 expulsion from Harvard for cheating and anything else that might illumine his character. Last week New York Times Columnist William Safire dredged up a 1958 reckless driving conviction: as a law student at the University of Virginia, Kennedy tried to elude a pursuing police officer, Safire reported, then was found hiding in the front seat of his car. Safire concluded: "When in big trouble, Ted Kennedy's repeated history has been to run, to hide, to get caught and to get away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sex and the Senior Senator | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson stick-wizards say a new attitude of enthusiasm, anticipation and optimism--"and, you can say, reckless abandon," adds sophomore winger Dave Burke--have swept aside memories of three season of disappointment, disenchantment and, last year, disaster. The difference, compared to last year, says Cleary, "is like night and day." His players echo that sentiment. Dave Burke: "Most of the trouble is behind us--we're totally gung-ho." Newly elected co-captain (along with goalie John Hynes) Graham Carter: "The end of one era is going out--the beginning of a new era is in." Sophomore goalie Wade...

Author: By Jim Hershberg and Bruce Schoenfeld, S | Title: The Icemen Cometh | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...bound Zionism to Nazism, Castro mocked two concepts dear to the Jewish people--the integrity of history and the integrity of language. As Castro brandished the term "genocide" he trivialized, for the sake of immediate political gain, the past suffering of the Jews. But far more dangerously, this reckless misuse of the term bodes ill for oppressed all over the world. For as he toyed with the language of mass murder, Castro made the crime less horrible, more familiar; if he eventually succeeds in bringing the word into common political discourse, he will bring the crime into realm...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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