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...what that Jerry's dad puts his face in front of his car's exhaust pipe so that his eyes will look red and swollen when he moves the couch down-stairs? So what if dad reads books written by Ph.D.'s on how to pack car trunks just before the family goes on vacation? Does the whole world have to know...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: OBSERVER | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...pulls his red wool hat down until it covers his eyebrows. Carper has spent five to six years on the streets, and thinks he may be 33. The smell of putrid wine and decaying teeth poisons his breath; the fluid running from his swollen eyes streaks his dirty cheeks before disappearing into his beard. "Am I in a goddam row? Who the hell's running the rows?" he swears. An older man with a thick gray beard informs Carper he is in Row 3 and assures him it is the best of them all. Carper's face softens into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Vellaga was also injured by the hit-and-run driver, but she was released from Somerville Hospital on Sunday after being treated for bruises and a swollen back, the Boston Herald reported. "She was very fortunate," Hickey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Dining Hall Worker Hit by Car | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game. Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, 75, the reputed head of the Genovese crime family, sits aloof and alone, his left eye red and swollen from surgery. White-haired Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 73, the alleged Lucchese family chief, is casual in a cardigan and sport shirt. Carmine (Junior) Persico, 53, is the balding, baggy-eyed showman of the trio. Elegant in a black pinstripe suit, a crisp white shirt and red tie, the accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...Ambassador Alexander Belonogov the names of 25 members of the Soviet, Belorussian and Ukrainian U.N. missions who are to be expelled from the U.S. by Oct. 1. All 25 were intelligence officers, Administration officials said at a briefing in Washington. Six months ago, the U.S. had ordered the swollen mission staffs to be reduced by about 38% -- from 275 to 170 -- in four stages beginning Oct. 1, but had left it to Moscow to choose whom to send packing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Have It Both Ways | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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