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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national issues played little role in Graham's victory. A Harvard- trained lawyer, he won largely on the strength of his ebullient good-ole- boy personality and his unabashed state boosterism. "The future of America is Florida," he says. "If America deals with Florida's problems today, it is dealing with America's problems tomorrow." As Governor, Graham endeared himself to Floridians through his once-a-week "workdays," when he would leave his desk to get the feel of a nonpolitical job: schoolteacher, hospital orderly, flight attendant, migrant farmer, even one night on the stage in The Fantasticks. That gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW FACES IN THE SENATE | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...show's vocals are Company's real strength. Not only do we get seasoned singers from the ranks of the Krokodiloes and the Opportunes, but director Klobucher has found some great new talent in Lisa Balabanian (Marta), and Beth Heller...

Author: By Robert Q. Mcmanus, | Title: Playing on Company Time | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

...Dartmouth. The Big Green still has a long way to go after an abysmal (7-18, 4-17 ECAC) campaign. Dartmouth's only strength is the year's experience gained by its 17 returning lettermen. Coach Brian Mason claims to have had a fine recruiting year, and he'll have to be proven right for the Green to move up in the standings this year...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Viewing the ECAC | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

Last season, suffering from a lack of leadership in the backfield, the New Havenites slumped to a 5-8-2 finish (2-3-2 Ivy). But with Zenobi at sweeper--and playing at full strength, after missing a pair of mid-season contests because of injury--Yale has reemerged as a defensive power in New England...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Booters NCAA Bound | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...have none of it: "The people I fear are those who look for tendentiousness between the lines . . . I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Melancholy Life of Uncle Anton Chekhov | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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