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The schematic eye that CBS uses as its television symbol seemed almost to blink and grow bleary last week. Since January the big broadcasting conglomerate (1984 sales: $4.9 billion) has been under attack from Fairness in Media, a conservative group endorsed by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. It wants to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Taking Aim At Cbs | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Measles on campus is no coincidence, says CDC Epidemiologist John Frank. Most children under college age have been immunized against the disease, and most adults have a natural immunity because they were exposed in their childhood, when measles epidemics were common. But people born between 1957 and 1967, which includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Campus Ills: Measles strikes U.S. colleges | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Above all, he brought to it a renewed sense of design. Caravaggio's work moves from clutter toward the irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of the Gesture | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Last week a federal grand jury indicted the flamboyant Democratic Governor on 50 counts of racketeering, wire fraud and mail fraud. U.S. Attorney John Volz charged that Edwards and six associates, including a brother, Marion, and a nephew, had conspired to create 15 health corporations and to illegally acquire state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Louisiana Mud Bath | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

White Knight. A corporation that rides to the aid of another in a takeover fight. The knight rescues the embattled firm by agreeing to acquire it on better terms than the pursuer would provide. The improved provisions can include a higher purchase price for the company's stock, and assurances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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