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Pedro had the rough, callused hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

It is impossible to miss Irving's message, but his method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Orphan Or an Abortion: The Cider House Rules | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Pakaluk misses and distorts the point that pregnancy involves not only fetuses but real live women, and that it is a personal and complicated matter for these women. He equates the desire for legal abortion with hedonistic "sexual freedom," apparently never having heard of the fact that all types of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pursuit of Truth | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

The image of inhospitable communities knocking an unwanted company around like a ping pong ball leads some to propose a central authority for arbitration. No regulations of supertoxins now exist in the U.S. except through DOD contracts. Toxic chemical legislation such as the Massachussetts Hazardous Waste Managagement Act, and the...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: No Easy Solution | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

DIED. Rudd Weatherwax, 77, flamboyant owner and trainer of the original Lassie and six subsequent Wonder Dogs; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 1940 he and his brother Frank took on an unwanted collie named Pal, which was selected first as a stand-in and then as star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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