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"As far as I know, I think I am the only Cuban in exile who proclaims he would like to rule his country one day," says Jorge Batista, 38, son of the island's late dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who was ousted by Castro in 1959. Jorge may be excused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1981 | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

Though owners and players are excited at the prospect of the season getting back on track-"I feel like a rookie again," enthused Bill Robinson of the Pittsburgh Pirates-their elation is tempered by understandable bitterness. Says Orioles Owner Williams: "The strike was unnecessary. It should never have happened. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boys of Summer Return | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Ben Cohen and Jerry Vreenfield, high school friends from Long Island, started Ben & Jerry's in Burlington four years ago. Now, at age 30, they tend strongly toward plumpness and prosperity. In place of the traditional seven-year-old boy who must be bribed with dasher-licking rights before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Austen exaggerates nothing; given her target she scarcely had to. But she brings to this item of juvenilia the mark of an accomplished satirist: she sets foolishness off against an implied moral world. Near the end of her narrative, Laura recalls meeting a plain girl named Bridget: "She could not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feelings | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

To dispense quickly with the story: Field is a tart-tempered tart with a gold-filled heart forced to hit the road, looking for the good life she imagines might exist in Los Angeles. What she is slow to realize is that it is right there beside her, in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Detour | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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