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...moment, the tragedy is that Ed Markey missed a stellar chance to join the great American screw-up tradition (if he lost the senate race) or to agitate a glacially staid legislative body (if he won). Now that...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: No Tragic Hero | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...normally staid Signet Society was shaken by controversy last week over invitations to the club's tres formal Annual Dinner at President Bok's formal residence on 17 Quincy Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 4/21/1984 | See Source »

Such figures have raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caribbean: Machine Guns in Paradise | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Once housed in the Prime Minister's residence, Trudeau continued to cavort in public. He stunned staid pols by sliding down banisters and squiring young women to chic discothèques. After a secret courtship came his 1971 marriage-since failed, amid excessive publicity-to Margaret Sinclair, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A Stroll, a Sauna and au Revoir | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...down route system serving 19 cities, vs. 49 before. Said William Slattery, 41, the former TWA executive who heads Braniff: "We are looking to direct ourselves in ways that are so basic that they can't be easily countered by any competing airline. We want to project a staid, comfortable, conservative image that is nothing like the freewheeling one Braniff had in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Comeback Trail | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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