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Maybe that's all in vain...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Birchers Fight for Acceptance | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

...jousting is in vain. When Detroit's Stroh Brewery Co. bought much larger Schlitz eight months ago, it looked to Wall Street as if two sick chickens were being gathered in a single coop. But, says an industry watcher, "they've done a little better than expected. The jury is still out on Stroh-Schlitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Knights and Black Eyes | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...officials feared that Ochoa, a military classmate of D'Aubuisson's, was being used by D'Aubuisson in order to force Garcia out as Defense Minister. Some Salvadorans looked for a less complicated motive. Said a military analyst: "This is a question of two very ambitious, vain men. In the Salvadoran army, once a commander gets a little too popular, a little too visible, he gets dragged down, or else he becomes a threat. Tigers don't eat tigers; they get moved to different cages. Ochoa was too visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: A Battle of Military Egos | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

After dining with the Soviet leader, Norwegian Actress Liv Ullmann gushed that "Brezhnev looks a little vain, but I feel an immediate liking for him when he takes my hand and tells me that he loved The Emigrants [her 1972 film]." Brandt's wife Rut was also taken by his gallantry. On his first state visit to West Germany, in 1973, Brezhnev kissed her hand and said, "You are the first person I am going to invite to Moscow." Cozying up beside her on a sofa, he promised that "all Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: A Mix of Caution and Opportunism | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...bygone stereotypes. Even her mother says her new morals are a hundred years behind the times. No one these days feels that becoming a housewife should be a woman's sole aim in life. And no one anymore refrains from sexual contact before marriage. Sabine is trying in vain to live out a story-book like fantasy where prince falls in love with beautiful princess, they get married, and live happily ever after...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: A Life of Illusion | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

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