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...hugged him like a father and shook his hand like a coach. Then he patted him on the head and told him he was wearing the wrong uniform...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Coming Home | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...That shook up the Olympians enough. The all-Providence College line of Kurt Kleinendorts, Paul Guav and Rich Costello put heavy pressure on Harvard right away. And at the 13:04 mark of the period, Sampson, passing from Blair's left, set up Covey Millen with a pass across the slot. Millen shot the moment he took it; tie score. Three of his teammates scored on the same play before the final siren...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Olympians Pound Crimson Icemen | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...brief, somber and quiet. An artillery corps band belted out a few revolutionary hymns, and women militia members goose-stepped across the tarmac of Jose Marti Airport. But President Fidel Castro, attired in tailored green fatigues, his beard noticeably gray, said not a word in public. He simply shook hands with the wounded, who apparently had been told to say nothing; several seemed too dazed to speak in any case, and one barely conscious man on a stretcher failed to recognize the Cuban leader. After the handshakes, the wounded were silently escorted into waiting ambulances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba on the Defensive | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Labor Party last week, Neil Kinnock and his wife Glenys took a stroll along Brighton beach for the benefit of photographers. As the cameras clicked, Labor's new standard-bearer tripped and fell into the chilly surf. Picking himself up, with a grin on his freckled face, Kinnock shook the water off his second-best suit and observed that "the damn tide came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Labor Reaches for Unity | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...Fellahs," the legend would have him say, "We've known nothing but defeat and humiliation for awhile. It was 1977 when we last tallied something on the scoreboard. Well, no more." Pontrelli then shook his head and stared solemnly at the ground. "No more. This is going to be the year...the Year of the Point...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: That Championship Season | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

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