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...what he really loves is taking a bunch of these kids who are "well-rounded, not just jocks," and challenging the big boys...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Billy Cleary's Winning Ways | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...surprised that the Gablers allow the American Revolution to be taught. Do they want impressionable kids to get the idea that a bunch of hotheads who think they know better than their rightful ruler are good guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1980 | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...pulled him off his motorcycle. Then one officer held him as the others started to slug. "Adrenalin gets going during any high-speed chase," says one officer. "The cops just went crazy. They wanted to teach him a lesson." Says another who witnessed the incident: "They looked like a bunch of animals fighting for meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crazy Cops | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...during the most intolerable commercials: double entendres with lissome teenage girls, men who live their lives at the edge with open-chested shirts. Granite cocks. And then the serious stuff begins, and the music trumpets forth the coming of the commentator: "Day 78," he says, announcing the score. A bunch of angry Iranian militants beat themselves with chains, cutting to the Russians rumbling toward the free world, and ah...the graphic mushroom cloud covers the picture and the words zoom out from its heart, "America Held Hostage...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Captive Audience | 1/18/1980 | See Source »

...Ioannidis spends most of his time alone, reading military history and books about the CIA. Even so, he occasionally gives parties in his cell that are attended by convicted torturers, members of his despised ESA military police, who reside on the third floor. The bumpkin of the bunch, according to Papathanassiou, is former Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos, whose meek acceptance of abuse by fellow inmates and blind devotion to " his President" make him the butt of prison-yard jokes. Pattakos even gets pelted with tomatoes and eggs thrown by other prisoners. He takes solace in religious tracts sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Posh Prison | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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