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A descendant of Frontiersman Jim Bowie, who struck out swinging at the Alamo, Kuhn is not exactly a buckskin man or most people's idea of a romantic. Standing 6 ft. 5 in., he was never much of an athlete, a "lousy ballplayer" by his own reckoning, better suited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cashiering the Commissioner | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Like typical teen-agers at a summer camp, they dressed in shorts, T shirts and running shoes, wore their hair in every length and style, and whiled away the hours tossing Frisbees. But there was nothing ordinary about them. The 192 youths who descended upon Georgetown University in Washington, D.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High-IQ Battle for the Gold | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Dan Morgan is a convicted kidnaper with little hope of leaving the maximum security prison at Stillwater, Minn., until the mid-'90s. During the early years of his sentence, he whiled away the days shuffling papers in an office and worrying about the financial plight of his disabled wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Doing Business Behind Bars | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Most home handymen used to be harmless basement tinkerers who whiled away their leisure hours building knotty-pine bookshelves. No longer. With a vigor born of economic necessity, more and more Americans are pushing themselves away from the TV set and doing their own home improvements. Risking blackened thumbnails and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sound of America Hammering | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

The Shah's life in exile, since he fled Iran last January, has been considerably less grand but still rather more than comfortable. In Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he lived for almost five months before coming to the U.S. for medical treatment, he occupied a rented four-building compound with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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