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Wholesome fun continues after dinner. Most people go to sleep, some smoke contentiously, and a small band of merrymakers try bingo. The game is disturbed by a trio of bicoastal Type A males who cry, "Cheat! Cheat!" and refuse to play unless they can win the Canyon Ranch tractor hat. Earlier, they were seen calling their offices for an adrenaline fix before they had even checked in. One of them is already in the lobby inquiring about the last plane to Burbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tucson: Balancing the Triangle of Life | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...balky bicoastal trio prove predictably inelastic in Men's Stretch, their first class. "Men are not as flexible as women," says the instructor encouragingly. Few women are as flexible as the instructors, who are all shimmeringly sleek, exotically turned out in leotard and leg-warmer ensembles, and able to lie on their sides and circle one leg in the air hundreds of times without getting cramps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tucson: Balancing the Triangle of Life | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

Wentzell currently has a corps of outfielders set to replace the disbanded trio of Nancy Boutillier, Karen Pelletier, and Barb Mahon, which worked 121 of the 124 innings the squad played last spring...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Softball Squad to Open Season Today | 4/6/1982 | See Source »

...decade since it broke away from Pakistan after a savage civil war. Its first and longest period of democratic rule ended abruptly when Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the independence movement and subsequently became the country's first elected Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1975. In a trio of coups, Lieut. General Mohammed Ziaur Rahman emerged as strongman, only to be assassinated by junior officers last May. Sattar, who was then Vice President, became acting President and led the country into elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh: Revolving Door | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...bolder venture: assembling entire desktop computers. Today that work takes place in 120,000 sq. ft. of leased office and manufacturing space in Thousand Oaks, Calif., and involves 400 people who design, assemble and sell eight microcomputer models. All involved with the startup have become millionaires: together the founding trio owns more than half of Vector Graphic stock, worth around $29 million at last week's over-the-counter close of $9.75 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Coup | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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