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...boxer in this Olympic crop is Pernell Whitaker, who pressed over 200 amateur fights into his 20 years, but is still a lightweight and still a southpaw. Glory could be as hard to find as opponents. Kindly the referee cautioned Far-rain Comeaux's handlers to keep a towel handy for tossing into the ring. They asked if they might just wave it, and he said they could. They did. Then, before Headliner Mark Breland came out, poor Tyrell Biggs, 23, went six well-hooted rounds with a muscle-bound actor named Mike Evans, the Budweiser Light "champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Planting Gold in the Garden | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...that the Mondale campaign is using money originally targeted for a get-out-the-vote effort in Texas to retire his heavy debt left over from the primaries. "That means," says one Texas political consultant who is an avid Mondale supporter, "that the Mondale leadership has thrown in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goal: A Landslide | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...some aides joke about updating their resumes. Others would like to devote $3 million in campaign funds to clearing Mondale's debts from last spring's primary battles. This to the horror of national Democratic fund raisers, who view that plan as equivalent to throwing in the towel against Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Big Move Up | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...reason: mousse works as easy as pie. With a pleasant fizz, the shaving-cream-like stuff is squirted from a can and combed through wet or towel-dried hair. After curling, blow-drying or hand-styling, moussers say, their hairdos are fuller, sleeker and easier to change than with sprays, setting gels or lotions. "Mousse helps your hair do what you want it to, with ease," notes Vidal Sassoon Art Director Steven Docherty. "You can get several styles, from a slicked-back Valentino look to a full, loose, curly look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Mousse Is on the Loose A quick, slick hair groomer is the wave of the future | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...merchandising division, "our strategy is to make the store so appealing that the customer walks out with a bath ensemble instead of just a towel, or a pair of jeans as well as a lawnmower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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