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Seated on the stage of Vanderbilt's Underwood Auditorium, simultaneously slicked up and rumpled in his Sunday best, he could pass for a stranger who got lost on his way to the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's other landmark. His mouth has the patient downturn of one who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: The Last Garden | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Charles Kuralt, CBS'S middle-aged Huckleberry Finn, a rumpled newcomer to this three-way race, having added the week day Morning to his imaginative, much acclaimed Sunday show only in October.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Sex is being used to promote items as varied as cologne and traveler's checks. In one TV ad, East Coast Chicken Peddler Frank Perdue declares that "my breasts aren't moving as fast as my legs." Paco Rabanne is trying to boost sales of its men'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Bum's Rush in Advertising | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Eckhardt, 67, looking like a rumpled professor in his tweed suit and bow tie, but sounding like a Southern populist, replied that many of the charges were false. Said he: "I have never voted for a statute that would call for forced busing. I have never been for gun control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: Personalities on Stage | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

When the Vatican ordered Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, to withdraw from public office last May, 15 politicians lunged for his seat in Congress. By August, polls indicated that Barney Frank, 40, a Harvard-educated former aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a popular state legislator for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The House: Matters of Morality | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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