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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 Supersub Bill Walton, 33, that teammates have to combat a powerful impulse just to stand and gawk. A sizable but unsturdy slab of alabaster, Walton was once breathtakingly Bird-like. Now he is the handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game...

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

...Missouri cruised at eleven stately knots past those concrete bunkers into the bay for recommissioning ceremonies, she was greeted not only by tugs spurting festive plumes of water but by half a dozen boats of the "Peace Navy." The small flotilla was protesting the home-porting of the Missouri with its nuclear missiles along San Francisco's waterfront. Mike Kennedy, on the other hand, thinks of the Missouri as a force for peace. "We'd prefer never to fire a shot in anger," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Out of Mothballs | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

While many health-conscious adults have been forsaking liquor for Perrier, children have been hitting the bottle with alarming abandon. The National Council on Alcoholism says that some 100,000 ten- and eleven-year-olds get drunk at least once a week, usually on beer or wine, and 3.3 million teenagers have serious drinking problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children: Pint-Size Alcoholics | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses exceeding 800 rads and were listed in "grave condition." Nineteen of them were chosen either for transplants of bone marrow from donors or for more experimental transplants of liver tissue from fetuses. At week's end eleven of the 35 had died, including six who had apparently undergone transplants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grim Lessons At Hospital No. 6 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...search for possible links between pornography and violence required long hours for the eleven members of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. They listened to social scientists, legal experts and victims of sex crimes; they pored over studies and reports. But their most vivid research occurred on a visit last fall to three Houston adult bookstores, where they watched a vice squad in action and bought a booklet called Young Girls in Bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naughty Photos | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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