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The Kid seemed wholly removed from Dallas and the Republicans, but he had Dallas' self-assurance: "I finish what nature starts." You want to know what the week was like? It was like Hank Slikker, the gentle fellow who drove me in from the airport and who talked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me, What Was It Like? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

This is the measure of Greg Louganis of the U.S. in a diving competition: after the other best male divers in the world-gifted, graceful, beautifully muscled athletes-have tied the ends of the limits of possibility into bowknots and arrowed into the pool with only the most demure of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A SOARING, MAJESTIC SLOWNESS | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

That exclamatory request, over the signature of an official of Salem College, a tiny liberal arts institution in the vertical world of Appalachia, was dispatched last February to the Soviet embassy in Washington. The letter, written at the direction of Ronald E. Ohl, president of the college, pointed out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia: Comradeship | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

The computer screen has a 512-line horizontal by a 342-line vertical grid, and the use of square dots--rather than the standard rectangular ones--at each of the almost 200,000 line crossings adds to the sharpness of the picture.

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: The Apple of Everyone's Eye | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

The loads would be as displaced in Douglas Unger's first novel as they were in The Grapes of Wrath, though Ma, Pa and Tom might not understand how it was possible to become outcasts of national prosperity. For generations, the land around Unger's Nowell, S. Dak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doakies | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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