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...Administration may have underestimated the common-sense conservatism of the elderly, who gave 60% of their votes to Reagan. Efforts to manipulate the conference, some delegates insisted, ended up hurting the Administration's cause. Said Milton Tupper, 67, a retired Los Angeles businessman: "They could have played a tape from Reagan in which he said, 'I hear there have been some complaints. I have asked the secretary to let you vote on each resolution.' He would have had a chorus of yeses." But the elderly should be flattered by the White House's meddling. If nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Poorly Off Are the Elderly? | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...into their wrists. To no one's surprise, they accused former Seychelles President James Mancham, exiled after René's successful 1977 coup, of arranging the raid. Mancham denied the charge, but his denial was damaged when one of the arrested mercenaries was found to have a tape recording of his voice intended for broadcast after a successful coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mercenaries: No Grounding the Geese | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...behind the back pass like Calvin Dixon's while looking into the stands: CALVIN DIXON, men's basketball--A partridge in a pear tree: GWEN GORMAN, co-captain of women's swimming--To have her whole thesis written: LILY PEW women's field hockey, squash and lacrosse--A Walkman tape player; JOE CARRABINO, men's basketball--A 450 SL convertible and a 14-inch vertical leap; TIM PENDERGAST, men's lacrosse--A dinner out; TANIA HUBER women's ice hockey--A new kneecap; CHRIS MITCHELL, men's basketball-Playing time; TRACY KIMMEL, women's ice hockey goalie: Unlimited studio recording...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday Wishes of Harvard Jocks | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

Junior BOB MCCABE is perpetually off in another world because he is attached to his Walkman tape player, his teammates kid him, 22 hours a day; the only two hours without it are practice time. "He'd wear it in games if the coaches would let him," one teammate chuckles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday Wishes of Harvard Jocks | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

When I was a kid, the small tape-recorder had just been perfected and there were dozens of toys that used the technology--dolls that cried or cows that mooed when you pulled their string...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toys for the Real Generation | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

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