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...University in Baton Rouge, La. The track meet drowses through the sweet tedium of late afternoon. An athlete plods across the infield with a long bag of vaulting poles on his shoulder. Two tall, leggy blond women run side by side with springing, matched strides. A crew with a truck begins to set up hurdles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Faces Were the Point of It All | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside in his pickup truck," Arthur told the federal agents. "I said I could cry. So he said, 'Come on, take a walk.'" Then John turned to Arthur and said, "I have friends who will pay for classified information." Arthur replied, "Now I know where you get your bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...asked him to move the camper to a level spot, and he said she could do it herself, he was not about to go outside in his underwear, and she stomped out, and just as he took off his underpants and reached for his pajama bottoms, she threw the truck into first and popped the clutch, and out the back door and onto the gravel he rolled, clothed only in his astonishment, and she did not stop but kept right on driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonesome Whistle Blowing | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...assistant principal at Midland came in and shook himself off. "I got a three-quarter-ton pickup truck, and I flooded out," he said. "It's just the condensation in that distributor. I ought to go out there and dry it out, but I'd drown doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: The Only Game in Town | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...year, out of total sales of 377,555. Although air bags do little good when a driver gets sideswiped, they have already helped prevent serious injuries, and possibly deaths, in head-on collisions. On a wet Connecticut road, the car of one Traveler's Insurance employee skidded into a truck carrying propane gas, but she walked away with minor bruises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Nov. 18, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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