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...restrictions State Department security agents resent most is a rule against carrying firearms on fraud investigations. "When you whip out that badge, it looks like any other badge," gripes an agent. "There's nothing on it that says we're not carrying guns and we're harmless. You really don't know who you're going to find. It could be John Dillinger." The agents regard the restriction as sure evidence of the State Department's snobbish disdain for cops. When the question of allowing the agents to be armed came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fake Passports | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Brademas, who served as majority whip of the House until his defeat last November, graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYU President | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

Even Republican leaders expressed skepticism that Congress would go along with the President a second time. Said Senate Majority Whip Ted Stevens of Alaska: "I just can't believe he's going to get those across-the-board cuts." Dole, a leader in both the Finance and Agriculture Committees, predicted: "The Senate will be slow to cut any more in the nutrition area, as I am." Nor were the financial markets encouraging. Stock prices fell sharply Friday, the Dow Jones hitting a new 17-month low of 824.01, and bond prices also plummeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rough Waters Ahead | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...served band members M & M's but failed to separate the brown ones they hate, the group was left with no alternative but to trash a dressing room, causing a couple of thousand dollars in damages. Vocalist David Lee Roth, 25, has further problems. His sexually suggestive antics whip pubescent fans into a frenzy and sometimes put naughty ideas into young girls' heads. Says Roth: "I get letters all the time saying, 'I got a kid and it looks like you and it needs a bicycle now and some pencils and a notebook by next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1981 | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...freeze-filled scoop that is used) that Brigham's requires its employees to learn. "The idea is to get maximum surface area but to keep the scoop sort of hollow," she explains. "You get a strip of ice cream that curls around on itself." Scoopers are trained to whip out precisely 4 oz. per small scoop, 5½ oz. for a medium scoop and 7 oz. for a large. But what ends up happening, she notes, is that customers who talk to the scoopers get more ice cream. She and her colleagues fight brain-fade by sizing up customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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