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...eyes and panting gills of Las Vegas. "Boxing should not be sanctioned by any civilized society." On the other side of the ring, Ali's old corner physician, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, points out, "You need ! only to turn on the box on Sundays to see an amazing number of stretcher cases being dragged off the field." But then, football is a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Of Murderous Intentions | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...saga ended last Thursday, as Hammer's jet carried the Goldfarbs to a reunion with their son at Newark Airport. Kremlin watchers could only speculate why Soviet leaders, days after the summit, allowed the Goldfarbs to leave. Weary, pale and on a stretcher, the white-haired 67-year-old scientist offered his explanation: "A miracle happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission From Moscow | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

When Pryor emerges moments later with a bong and some presumably freebased cocaine, the audience knows only too well from the events of Pryor's own life what is about to happen. When we see him in the next scene being carried on a stretcher, looking like a bloody, beached alligator with an afro, we can fill in the blanks ourselves...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Richard Pryor, Your Story is Calling | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...lights flashing, an ambulance drew up in front of the Government Printing Office. Paul Olkhovsky, an OMB aide, was carried in on a stretcher by attendants in hospital gowns who performed "emergency surgery," tearing pages out of documents to represent the cancellation of Government programs. Olkhovsky then bounded up to tell waiting reporters "The 1987 budget lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future, Again | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizes: to Win Over Death | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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