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...radioman and Beirut volunteer, he was a year into his four-year service and planned, despite a C high school average, to go to college afterward. A Marine stint, his family told him, would smooth his U.S. citizenship application; the parents had finally applied last spring, just after Alex went to Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Four Families Bore the News | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...French toast and, as ever, Spam). The volleyball games and group jogs have been rare since the hostile fire turned intense late in the summer. Between duties, some soldiers kill stray scorpions and centipedes in the three-and four-man bunkers. When he was out and about during a stint as liaison officer to the British peace-keeping troops, First Lieut. Lee Marlow of Nashville found to his surprised pleasure that "people in Beirut seemed friendly. They waved and said hello." But now he and everyone else must spend the bulk of their time hunkered down. "It's mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We All Knew the Hazards | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...fourth quarter and allowing him to take a turn in the other end of the pool. The Big Green, however, couldn't take advantage of the stellar netminder's repositioning and it was unable to break the shutout, Graham, meanwhile, garnered a goal and two assists in his offensive stint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Leaving Brown with an A.B. in math, Saltonstall went to work for Betty Crocker, working his way up from a cake mix plant trainee to a supervisor and engineer. During his five year stint in the cake business, he was moved from Buffalo to Chicago to Minneapolis...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Meeting Challenges Head On | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

...knew we would have to work some double magic to have John Anderson pull ahead of both Reagan and Carter," says Patrick F. Lucey of his 1980 stint as the National Unity Party's Vice Presidential candidate, "but working for him was the only honest thing I could...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Rejoining the Fray | 10/21/1983 | See Source »

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