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...though. But the engine was sputtering, and as we hit a main thoroughfare, it quit on him altogether. I told him that if he would guide the car to the curb, I would push from the rear. But he hopped out, held one hand on the steering wheel and pushed with all his might. This is a man with a pacemaker; at his age, what was he thinking of? Explained Pepper: 'I thought you needed help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 25, 1983 | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...infantile painters, and assuring them that their fine workmanship is not going unappreciated. Actually saving a life proves all but impossible. One elderly patient undergoes an enthusiastic bout of fits and seizures while the hospital orderlies argue with a nurse over the incentives necessary to convince them to wheel away this ailing charge, who has had the audacity to collapse at the end of a shift. Anderson has a gift for such comically macabre scenes: while the pale old man flails about helplessly, the orderlies argue with the nurse over whether they will get a side order of bacon...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: God Save the Patient | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been prodigally "planted" on the scene that morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Thoroughly American Julia | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Tuesday you should happen to spot a white 1983 Pontiac Firebird with blue stars on the roof and the words "Capitol of Air" on that side in huge red letter, the man behind the wheel will be George W. Polk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Win-a-Car | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...students are finding it is much more exciting and challenging to be working for yourself than being a cog in a corporate wheel," Gleba said More than 500 students last spring flocked to a conference at the university concerning small business enterprises, he added...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Student Businesses Thrive at Stanford | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

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