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A raid on an after-hours "blind pig" bar in Detroit, a scuffle between a Newark cabdriver and the police -- these were the flash points 20 years ago as the summer of 1967 erupted into the Fire This Time. Ghetto despair gave way to grotesque destruction: 43 dead in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghetto: From Bad to Worse | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

You might have seen a recent Sports Illustrated issue listing every major-league ballplayer in alphabetical order, along with his salary.

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: No Match for Pretzels and Souvenir Pucks | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

Moreover, I found it hard to believe that there are enough readers around to keep 11 civil liberties publications afloat. But I guess there are, because Langdell stocks them. They are, in nearly alphabetical order: Civil Justice Quarterly, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Alert, Civil Liberties Bulletin, Civil Liberties Docket, Civil...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Legalese | 5/20/1987 | See Source »

The Philippines said they had a government but it wouldn't be arriving for a couple of months. The president of Zambia told me he would only help if I could set the U.N. to do roll call in "reverse alphabetical" order. Samoa had gone fishing and nobody knew when...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: SOUND OF FURY: | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

This year's edition of Courses of Instruction once again delivers on its promises of chills, thrills and heart-break. It packs a punch but the guide blazes no new trails in college-course indexing. Instead, its usually offbeat editors chose to list course offerings the old-fashioned way: according...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: It's Back and It's Not Much Better | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

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