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Often underestimated Celtics Coach K.C. Jones, the sidekick guard who accompanied Russell to eleven college, Olympic and pro parades, likes to tick off the essential reasons he considers Bird the "best total player" ever. "Attitude. Determination. Understanding. Hustle. He's also got some talent." So much of it, according to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A 16th Flag in Sight | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

The son of longtime U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Pat grew up in Lexington, Va., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from hometown Washington and Lee University. After a hitch as a Marine combat officer in Korea, he graduated from the Yale Law School, flunked the New York bar exam and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Power, Glory - and Politics | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Eighty-year-old Langdell Library at the Law School is just one example of a library with serious climate control problems. Of the 1.5 million volumes in the collection, about one-third are endangered, according to an estimate by Willis Meredith, head of Langdell's preservation department. Meredith says "conditions...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: The Rush To Save Books | 12/11/1985 | See Source »

Willis Hawley of Oregon chaired the House Ways and Means Committee, and Reed Smoot of Utah headed the Senate Finance Committee. Both were fiscal experts with more than 20 years of service on Capitol Hill. But, responding to pressure from organized labor and some sectors of industry, they transformed what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shades of Smoot-Hawley | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

Women and politics, not to mention men, take a thorough drubbing in The Good Terrorist. The heroine, Alice Mellings, 36, is thick-witted, tubby and held in thrall by her "admiration and wistful love" for Jasper Willis, a loutish layabout who also happens to be a homosexual. Alice's adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mopping Up the Good Terrorist | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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