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Volcker, who was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and took his master's degree in political economy at Harvard, is an avid deep-sea fisherman. Before his two children grew up and he moved with his wife to a co-op on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Volcker to the Rescue | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former adviser on Arab affairs, Shmuel Toledano: "The law is on the side of the government, and justice on the side of the Bedouin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Evicting the Bedouins | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

What he neglects to say is that George also made it for Gracie. Born to poor Jewish parents on New York City's Lower East Side, Burns started putting his act together when he was seven in the Peewee Quartet, a group of kids who sang for small change in neighborhood taverns. By the time he was 14 he had found his main prop-a seven-cent Ricoro cigar. "I'd go into one of those places where they would press your suit while you stood in your underwear. I'd put it on hot-I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Going in Style with George Burns | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...rowing canal in the Moscow suburb of Krylatskoe is the best in Europe, even though the stands, seating 10,000, were erected on the wrong side for the prevailing winds, sheltering the inner two lanes and making them calmer and faster than the outer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Warming Up for the 1980 Olympics | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...merely mauls. But women--women he subdues with a combination of violence and gentleness, depending on their speed of submission. Dracula robs sado-masochism of its ugly, hideous, sordid side, and changes it into the brutally tender ballet of your innermost fantasies. (Yean, your fantasies, fella...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

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