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The frail old man sat in a wheelchair, his emaciated right arm hanging limply in his lap, his eyes staring vacantly overhead. His lip was curled, as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his bald pate bore the green marks that are used for radiation treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casey's Well-Groomed Successor | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Their wide, staring eyes and matchstick arms are the all too familiar icons of hunger and despair. The Third World's starving millions are truly the wretched of the earth, and in recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Hard Times for Foreign Aid | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

"Every play," Cobbs said, "it seemed Vinny was staring me right in the eyes. We'd be faking a man-to-man coverage and I'd be saying to myself, 'I hope he believes it, I hope he believes it.' He'd chuckle just before the snap, and we'd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowl of Bowls | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

The thin, slightly stooped figure shuffled inside a cordon of burly bodyguards to take the witness chair in Room 2118 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Staring down at him from their two rows of seats, the members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee itched to ask their questions. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plumbing the Cia's Shadowy Role | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

At precisely 6:37 p.m., I stepped up to a ticket window. The man staring back at me looked weary. I wonder what he thought of me.

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Just Around the Corner | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

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