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Retired people should not be exempt from this legislation, either. They have shuffleboard and Miami; they should be happy with that. What can they do when they're drunk, anyway...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Adult Responsibilities | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

Courses run from Monday to Saturday, so students have Sundays for their own activities, said Mintz. There is a student newspaper, student council, drama club and yearbook. to stay in shape, voyagers can participate in aerobics classes or play volleyball or shuffleboard...

Author: By Joshua L. Dunaief, | Title: Taking a Semester at Sea | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...urine-stained hallways, and discount shops, live more than 1,000 Marielitos, many sporting the telltale tattoos that mark them as former prisoners in Cuban jails. Squalid $8 rooms serve as base camps for drug dealers, prostitutes and holdup gangs. Nearby MacArthur Park, once a palm-lined site for shuffleboard and paddleboats, long ago became outlaw territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayhem and Murder in L.A. | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...ruburbs offer an alternative to the retirement meccas where senior citizens shuffleboard toward the inevitable, surrounded only by mirror images of their decline. Seniors on fixed incomes stay young in the ruburbs by mingling with children and young adults. When Sears Executive Dick Klein, 66, and his wife retired to Cloverdale, Calif., 93 miles north of San Francisco, they expected to visit the city at least twice a month. He rarely gets there twice a year. He is too involved in the local Lions and the Boosters and is a passionate follower of the Eagles basketball team. Says Douglas Rankin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Welcome to Ruburbia | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Howard Baker, the other Republican worthy, is also determined to hang around and reach for the brass ring. He is a year younger than Bush. But by 1988, he too will be on the threshold of those golden years when a man might prefer shuffleboard to hand-to-hand combat with Democrats and overnight flights to distant capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Graying of the Office | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

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