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...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: One Fine Night in Newton | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...lightweight boat is a constant, with Kevin Bedell as seven-man, Jim Himes at five, Dave Berger at four, Chris Wendland at three, Trip Switzer at two, and Duncan Robbins in bow. Marty Katz will cox the varsity for the second race in a row after a mid-season shake-up that resulted in veteran Ogan Gurel leaving the team...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Oarsmen Prepare For Sprints | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

...shout without the t.) This campaign, in a state as vast and variegated as California, must be waged in 60-second television ads, which must be fueled by endless fund raisers. As Zschau explains, between bites of an airport snack shop's meatball sandwich, "You simply can't shake enough hands and kiss enough babies to get elected in this state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Crazy Primary | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...command in Eastern Europe dates from the era of Brezhnev or before. With the exception of Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski, 62, all are over 65, and four out of six have passed 73. Moreover, they have all shown a greater capacity for political survival than for the kind of shake-up of the bureaucracy that Gorbachev is trying to bring to the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Communism's Old Men | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...other hand, there is the unfairness to the celebrity. I mean, why should Fess Parker have to shake hands at the factory gate -- after what he did at the Alamo? Nor is it right that Kennedys should have to compete for office and risk the indignity of, one day, losing. The British would never permit, say, Prince Andrew or his intended, "Fergie," to be so tarnished. There must be a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Celebrities in Politics: a Cure | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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