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...they had told me they were sending me to Alaska," Cao says, "I would have gone there. I didn't know any of these places or where they were. I was grateful for a jungle or a farm or anything." His first job was in a car wash, and next he worked for a jewelry manufacturer. In 1980 he founded Cao Enterprises, which makes ersatz American Indian baubles, and soon put his former boss out of business. Cao drives a Cadillac Fleetwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The New Ellis Island | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Russian Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalgia, an agonizing stylistic exercise about a Soviet intellectual in Italy. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life won the Special Jury Prize. At the closing-night ceremony, Python Terry Jones thanked the jury members by name and quipped, "Your money is behind the wash basin." This was the first year since 1967 that no American film won a single jury prize, thus ensuring the cynicism of the huge U.S. contingent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: In a Bunker on the Cote d'Azur | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

Rogers surprised many by making the first boat, which was "a real act of will more than anything else," according to freshman coach Ted Wash burn. The boat was undefeated until its last race, which it lost in Yale...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Campbell Rogers | 5/25/1983 | See Source »

Maser and other specialists believe that a network of fanatic German Nazis in Latin America have conspired to spread forged documents designed to white wash their Führer and revive interest in the Nazi period. According to Maser, there is close cooperation between the Nazis in Latin America and forgers in Communist East Germany who are producing Hitler-era material that is intended to create bad feelings among the NATO partners while it brings in much needed dollars and other hard currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bull Market in Phony Naziana | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...Edmonds, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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