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...yogurt to his guests. Though obedient to Moscow, he has cautiously attempted to create a Socialist state more attuned to Bulgarian needs. His economic program, while not as ambitious or as innovative as Hungary's, allows managers more flexibility than in the U.S.S.R. and encourages industrial workers to till plots of an acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: To Russia with Love | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...sell is soft, but the pitch is eager. William Shain of Macalester College in St. Paul brags about his school's Scottish festival. "You haven't lived till you've heard 150 bagpipes all playing together," he tells the group of high school students. To augment Macalester's appeal, he pulls out a picture of downtown Minneapolis and says, "You remember when Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat over the city? That's where it goes." Spike Gummere of Lake Forest College, which is in a Chicago suburb, tells students that the city is close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Go Southwest, Small College | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...didn't have to play till Friday I would have played today," Fusco said last night. "I'll be playing [against Providence]," he added...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: What's My Line? | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

...free Ezra Pound. In 1955 he visited Pound in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital, where Pound had been held since the war as unfit to stand trial for treason. He writes to Hemingway, "What I saw made me sick and I made up my mind I wouldn't rest till he got out. Not only for his sake but for the good name of the country: after ten years it was beginning to look like persecution." For the next few years, MacLeish worked through his contacts in the Justice and State Departments and coordinated a successful joint request by Eliot...

Author: By Robert E. Monroe, | Title: Yours Ever, Archie | 2/3/1983 | See Source »

...always has, Tommy sticks to a few unchanging rules. The schoolkids can come in--"If they were my kids. I wouldn't want them standing in the cold"--but they aren't allowed on the machines till lunchtime. If customers put their feet on the stools, Tommy kicks them...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: At Tommy's, A Quiet 25th Anniversary | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

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