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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposing ball-carriers this season, Collins really must seem 400 feet tall...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The 400-Foot Linebacker | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

...much of the $1 billion a year that will be required by 1990. And Uncle Sam would have to supply nearly all the additional $1 billion annually required for a vastly expanded research effort -- which must not be taken from other research efforts. This is a tall order. In fiscal 1986 the Reagan Administration committed just $234 million to AIDS research and education combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call to Battle | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Located in front of the Currier House grill, the Juke stands seven feet tall and sports a 22-by-16 inch sceen. Its speakers are loud. Very loud. And, whether it's fed money or not, the Juke is programmed automatically to play videos and televised alcohol advertisements...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Currier's Got Music Videos | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...searched old faces and made broad gestures when memory clicked into place; yes, the hair is thin; yes, the belly is big. Winston Hart, 71, was there, a very tall, strong-faced man called "Hemlock," with powerful knotty arms, his pants held up by braces, who was a woods foreman for the Brown Paper Co. Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: an Unusual Reunion | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Dahl, 6 ft., 6 in. tall, then found himself cramped in the cockpit of a Tiger Moth in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had enlisted in the R.A.F. After training, he was given an unfamiliar Gloster Gladiator and wrong directions to fly to a base in the Libyan Desert. He ran out of gas, crashed and spent six months recovering in Egypt. By the time he got back in the air, this time in a spiffy new Hurricane over Greece, the Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moral Bite Going Solo | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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