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Last spring, Cambridge enacted an ordinance directed at Arthur D. Little which prohibited the storage, testing, or transportation of nerve gas agents within city boundaries. Soon afterward, the North Cambridge laboratory challenged the city statute in a legal suit still pending before Middlesex Superior Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Urges City Monitor Nerve Gas | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

Ironweed was turned down 13 times, frequently with the comment "Who wants to read a book about a bum?" Bellow did, and afterward wrote a stern letter to Viking, the house that originally rejected the book: "That the author of Billy Phelan should have a manuscript kicking around looking for a publisher is disgraceful." The admonishment worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Winning Rebel with a Lost Cause | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...against New England a week ago inched him over 12,000. It was an embarrassing game that the Seahawks led by 23 points and lost by 15. Patriot Rookie Irving Fryar caught the first touchdown pass of his pro career. Even before Harris had shed all of his armor afterward, Fryar appeared at Franco's stall and quietly sat down next to a bald man with an amiable smile, Bill Gordon, who happened to coach them both in high school. Gordon regarded the two players with the pleasure of an architect imagining his last house adjoining his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Excellence by the Yard | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...three dollars and taken the trouble to attend the speech. Whether or not Secretary Weinberger was contributing anything new to the public debate--and protestors could hardly know this in advance--they have no right to interfere with the opportunity of other listeners to hear the speech, asks questions afterward, and ultimately decide for themselves whether something interesting or worthwhile was said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...became legion. "It's a great country where a man can come up, whatever his religion, whatever his sex," he told one group. His manual gaffes caused Turner even more trouble: he was shown on television patting Party President lona Campagnolo and another female Liberal on their posteriors, afterward explaining weakly that he was a "tactile politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Changes Course | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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