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...biblical King David as its hero and narrator. And it offers a host of other familiar names and time-tested stories. God Knows even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...Longest Streak: Harvard, eight games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD-COLUMBIA AT-A-GOANCE | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

...than any other kicker in Crimson history. True, the first-team All-Ivy punter and placekicker brought consistency and experience to both positions. But junior Bob Steinberg, who followed Villanueva through Palisades High (of Whatever Happened to the Class of '65 fame), should keep Harvard's kicks among the longest and most accurate in the league. Steinberg new considerable action last year when Villanueva got hurt. While he was a touch shaky in the placekicking department (only three of the PATs successful), his punting was superb--10 for an average of 39.6 yards. He kicked a 49-yard field goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Squad | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...thousands of Viet Nam veterans, the longest battle of America's most unpopular war still rages-in U.S. courtrooms. Last May a $180 million settlement was reached in the class-action suit against seven chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange, the dioxin-contaminated defoliant that the military sprayed over Viet Nam from 1965 to 1970. The plaintiffs claimed that Agent Orange had caused, among other things, skin disorders in many of the soldiers and birth defects in some of their children. Judge Jack Weinstein of New York, who worked out the mass-damage award, is now holding hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The Battle of Agent Orange | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...fighters that may be en route from Eastern Europe, or by a squadron of Soviet MiG-23s reportedly stationed in Cuba, but the Sandinistas deny it. All the U.S. and Nicaragua seem to agree on is that, at some 4,400 yds., Punta Huete will have the longest runway in Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Flying Down to Managua | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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