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Robert L. Calvert '39, stood outside Alton's only precinct--located in the village fire station--and held a sign for U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) but, he added, he doubted that Lugar would be elected...

Author: By David L. Greene and Kathryn M. Meneely, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: N.H. Voters Turn Out in Droves to Cast Ballots | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

Just how independent is the commission? TIME's Thompson reports that six of the eight commissioners have some type of conflict that may keep them from voting on certain categories of bases. Example: Alton Cornella, a South Dakota businessman, has been fighting to keep nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BASE | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...flood of new games published on CD-ROMs for personal computers. Having languished on computer-store shelves for nearly a decade, CD-ROM's for Macintosh and IBM-compatible PCs are suddenly taking off. "Trip got blindsided by CD-ROMs," says John Taylor, an analyst at L.H. Alton, a San Francisco-based investment firm. "People who bought PCs for all sorts of reasons are saying, 'I just spent $2,500 for my multimedia computer. Why should I spend $400 on a dedicated game machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for Keeps | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...flesh-and-blood human being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Americans Won't Do | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Sharpton and two attorneys, Alton H. Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason, took up the case. They did not let Brawley speak to a grand jury or with New York Attorney General Robert Abrams. When Brawley's mother was subpoenaed, Sharpton advised her not to testify and took her to a church for sanctuary...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Reinventing Al Sharpton | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

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