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...reform of the page system. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week appointed an ad hoc committee to recommend within a month some system for housing the pages together, in a dormitory perhaps, and for keeping them under supervision. At present the pages live wherever they choose and roam about Washington in off hours as they please, an arrangement that in view of their youth is a standing invitation to trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Its Image Problem | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

When Prince Turki and Princess Hend moved to wealthy Indian Creek, neighbors were soon taken aback. The prince's small herd of goats began to roam onto adjacent lawns. Last spring the royal couple threw a party for their three-year-old son that featured circus performers, an orchestra, fireworks, kosher hot dogs and a birthday cake on which live flamingos perched. The final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheiks Who Shake Up Florida | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

Saudi specialists say that Fahd's first task will be to shore up his credentials with the traditionalists at home. Despite personality differences between Khalid and Fahd, the two men had complemented each other. Khalid remained close to the nomadic tribes that roam the country's desert wastelands, and his piety and sincerity appealed to devout practitioners of Wahhabism, the orthodox branch of Islam unique to Saudi Arabia. Fahd, on the other hand, gained international respect for his intelligence, flexibility and informed grasp of foreign affairs. But he had much weaker ties to the tribes, and his playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monarch with Global Vision | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...thereabouts; it is usually the rainiest month of the year; it is the beginning of the hurricane watch; and it is graduation time for a whole new generation of mosquitoes. As a result, hotels have vacant rooms, restaurants have empty tables, and taxi drivers roam the streets looking for a beckoning hand. What is needed, obviously, is something to make people flock to the area despite the weather. Out of such logic was born the New World Festival of the Arts, Miami's attempt to attract tourists and at the same time turn itself into one of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweating It Out in Miami | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...eighteen-year-old prostitute who can "suck point off a Chevy" and her partner. Banana Mac Parker, introduce an add assemblage populating Montgomery between 1918 and 1928. These include the aristocratic Banastre family, whose men patronize Blue Rhonda Latrec and Banana Mac. The younger Banastre roam from Yale Law School to incestuous beds, while their stunning mother. Hortensia, appears to epitomize Montgomery's last dispassionate bastion of social standards. But her frigid facade soon crumbles when she meets a gentle young man half her age, and their affair entangles Montgomery, from its upper echelons to the railroad station's streetwalkers...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Southern Belles | 4/7/1982 | See Source »

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