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...however, the British had never been enthusiastic about losing lives in defense of their remote colony, even if the lives were Argentine. A Market & Opinion Research International poll, taken four days before the Sheffield sinking, had shown that three out of five Britons were not prepared to lose one serviceman's life in defense of the Falklands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falklands: Two Hollow Victories at Sea | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...young ex-serviceman at the door of Edward Eliçofon's Brooklyn home had a knapsack full of paintings for sale. They had been bought at a flea market in Germany, the young man said. Eliçofon, a lawyer and passionate collector, was intrigued. He did not know, on that afternoon in 1946, that what the man offered was a collector's dream-and ultimately, a $10 million disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furor over Two Long-Lost D | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...ofon paid the ex-serviceman-whose name he says he has long since forgotten-$450 for two 11 -in. by 9½-in oil-on-wood portraits, one of a man, the other of a woman. He had no idea who painted them but thought "they were very beautiful." For 20 years they nestled in his jumbled collection of pictures, books, antiques and objets d'art. Then in 1966 an art historian friend recognized the paintings in a book on artwork that had been lost or destroyed in Germany during World War II. Soon the finding was authenticated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furor over Two Long-Lost D | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...members of both political parties praised the President for his courage and were fully supportive of his operation." At week's end Carter prepared a report to Congress in which he gave the bare outlines of the operation and insisted, contrary to statements from Tehran, that no American serviceman remained in Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debacle in The Desert | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...that bear anti-Iranian vulgarisms. There are numerous varieties of Khomeini dart boards and targets for sharpshooters. One dart board features a caricature of the Ayatullah holding a lighted match to his posterior. In Bedford Park, Ill., Michael McCormack was inspired to make Khomeini dart boards by a diaper serviceman who lined his truck with pictures of the Ayatullah and threw soiled diapers on them. Says McCormack: "We have sold 200,000 to everyone from little old ladies to a kid who wants to peddle them in grammar school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Schlock | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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