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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the first sights greeting visitors to Le Bourget was the gleaming red- ; white-and-blue U.S.A. Pavilion -- and on its roof the figure of a security guard with a sniper rifle. All attending the air show were scanned for weapons at the entrance; business visitors then had to be reexamined before they could view the commercial displays in the American pavilion. Many wondered why they had to go through the double ordeal when just two minutes away Soviet hosts were admitting one and all, save those who were smoking or eating. "The State Department made us do it," explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Steal The Paris Air Show | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...hospital, North returned to Philmont, missing the rest of his first year at the academy. His greatest fear was that his injuries would prevent him from winning a Marine commission. At home, he devised his own peculiar rehabilitation program: he made jump after jump off the six-foot-high roof of the family garage to strengthen his damaged legs. No pain, no gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...shape, which he claimed was much more receptive to the good fortune emanating from the bay. Architect Remo Riva complied. Says Riva: "He said we should also put up an antenna to channel feng shui waves into the building. Barring that, he suggested we put a hole in the roof." The building now has a skylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas How to Keep the Dragons Happy | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...ordinary to hold our sympathy. Humanity is the one thing they can never abdicate. So it is that every king proverbially longs to see how the other half lives: the tiny Dalai Lama, installed as God-King of Tibet at the age of four, used to stand on the roof of his palace and wistfully gaze through a telescope at the other little boys playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads. The screen that separates us from royals is, after all, a two-way illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Ambassadors From The Realm of Fairy Tale | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Gasser would have applied to drama schools this year, but all of the auditions were held the week her thesis was due. She couldn't do both at the same time and might audition next year. Freshman year her first role was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, then she went on to The Glass Menagerie. "I was playing old Southern ladies all freshman year." The Harvard, Massachusetts, native is ending her acting career at Harvard playing Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. In between she has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and has appeared in Richard...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: ...And It Pays Badly, Too | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

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