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...were disappointed to see that Frank Reynolds was not included in your retrospective. Frank was one of the best-liked newsmen in television history. His tragic death last July saddened millions of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 1984 | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Unfortunately, a number of women who give birth to infected children are unaware that they have been exposed to the disease. In two out of 35 cases in the Seattle study, husbands had not told their wives about the infection. In such cases, only honesty can help prevent the tragic consequences to young victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Confusion over Infant Herpes | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...Yale Athletic Department had shown last November the same "Compton sense" the Canadian Football League (CFL) did recently, Margaret Cimino '87's tragic accident would have avoided. Prior to an important CFI, playoff game, the goalposts were coated heavily with Vaseline. This ridiculously simple trick accomplished what any number of security guards couldn't--perverting an divert bolsters crowd from injuring theorized by a falling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goalpost Security | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...tragic things that's happened--not so much to them but to us--is that the Reagan Administration uses phrases to hide realities that are uncovering now. When you talk about elections and democracy, the people in Central America always put out enough votes to return the right wing to power. Now, theidea that you're talking about bringing democracy to El Salvador through elections is mindless. Because the crisis in El Salvador is not a constitutional crisis, it is not going to be solved by constitutional means. Elections are not a device to transport a society from one stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The U.S. and Central America | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

Silkwood draws its power from its low-hayed approach to the story, the cast and crow rents the temptation to fabricate ridiculously tragic scenes of blatant corruption, Silkwood is no Chinn Syndrome, where Jane Fonda played an aggressive reporter investigating a neat melt-down at a nuclear reactor. Rather this film goes behind the scenes of life at a nuclear plant and subtly probes the intricacies concerning the operation and life of its employees. This film has no glamour, nor does it gloss over related event; the scene in which Silkwood's home is decontaminated for radiation poisoning is horrifying...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uncomplicated Power | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

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