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The kinetic energy of new combinations is changing the U.S. today as profoundly as it did at the turn of the century, in the sepia-tinted days of Ellis Island. The faces are different now -- mostly brown and yellow. Twenty years ago, more than half of all immigrants came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigrants Like Those Who Came Before Them | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

By then police had obtained warrants charging four occupants of the Move headquarters -- Frank James Africa, Conrad Hampton Africa, Ramona Africa and Theresa Brooks Africa -- with parole violation, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, and making terroristic threats. To facilitate the execution of the warrants, authorities on Sunday cordoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Looks Just Like a War Zone | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

The fireball that rose over a conifer forest in the remote Stony Tunguska River basin in central Siberia on the morning of June 30, 1908, reached an altitude of twelve miles, and the blast was heard hundreds of miles away. Those closest to the explosion, the townspeople of Vanavara, 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incident At Tunguska | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Suddenly, Sudan seemed renewed. The change began with drum rolls and music on state-run Radio Omdurman, after which General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister, proclaimed to the country, "The government is finished. The people stand united." Within minutes, the capital city of Khartoum, which had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan a Joyful, Fragile Revival | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Taylor's new gold trunks and shoes, smack with tassels, gave contrast to the faded green trunks of Luke Lecce, the opponent. A part-time pro for four years, he is more properly a sales rep for 7-Up in Pittsburgh, a graduate of Duquesne, age 23. Taylor is...

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

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