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...Square, especially around Saturday nights. They stand around listening to their radios, smoking cigarettes and watching. The Dark End of the Street looks at these Cambridge people whom we see all the time but do not know. In compassionate and evocative style, the film raises an issue in terms seldom explored in conventional media. Racism rages not only as an academic debate at Harvard, but as a coming of age reality for children growing up in Cambridge...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Another Side of Cambridge | 3/3/1981 | See Source »

...incredible to her that I should have made the highest score in the class that she was trying to test me again personally. For a few moments I knew rage so intense that I wanted to take my fists and start punching her. I have seldom hated anyone so deeply. I handed the examination back to her and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Carolina: Growing Up Black in the '40s | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...with only a handful of races remaining before the completion of his spectacular career, Hackett and those who follow in his wake, comprising the finest collegiate swim squad in the East, seldom draw more than a few rows of dedicated spectators. Not enough to muster the applause Hackett deserves...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Bobby Hackett | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

...standing order to ship up to 60 cases (720 bags) of Jelly Bellys to Washington each month. They go to the White House, to Capitol Hill and just about every Government agency. While John F. Kennedy favored Callard & Bowser toffees, and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would seldom venture abroad without his kippers, neither statesman's penchant influenced popular taste as Reagan's Bellys have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hill of Beans | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Since any one arm of the various groups that rule Iran seldom knows what the others are doing, I was able to get a visa to travel to Pakistan. To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail. Then I sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is to Happen to Me Tonight? | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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